Mario Díaz-Balart: “This bill would have established a clearinghouse, a national database of school safety best practices.”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Actually, I just want to thank you for having this.

We still have the power of the purse, and I zealously protect the power of the purse.

To call those folks the counterparts of the U.S. Coast Guard is not only insensitive and insulting, but it shows a lack of understanding of reality.

This absolutely does not happen without the coordination and the approval and the support of the Cuban regime.