In my professional assessment, the U.S. Border Patrol is rapidly losing situational awareness required to know who and what is entering our homeland.

Travel and tourism are incredibly important to the American economy, every state, and that's on full display in my home state of Florida.

Do you, and Director Wray, do you agree that the Taliban is a terrorist organization?

Were the two of you disappointed when our military came home without all of the American citizens?

It seems to be counterintuitive that it would be against national security interests for somebody like that to be in senior leadership of the Taliban.

But were you disappointed that it did not happen before we brought our military home?

There are different ways to pay for it. We can either have the user pay for it, the flying public, business or consumers.

I think we all have to figure out how to get our airports better at doing screening so we don't ever have this shutdown again.

I want to thank Chair Rosen for her team which is very dedicated to growing tourism not just in each of our states which is important to our economy but all across our country.

Our nation, as we all know, can't go back to shutdowns. We can't cripple our economy. We can't destroy our jobs again.

Florida's open for business. I know the regulations the Biden Administration has proposed in the mandates related to COVID, international travel have created some uncertainty around the state of especially our international travel and our…