John Rice Carter

As the chief law enforcement officer of the land, you must do your part and follow through with the prosecutions and consequences.

You know, I think you can figure out that I am the chairman of Homeland Security Appropriations Committee by the comments of the chairman.

If you expect to receive Federal money, comply with Federal law.

That refusal to share information, that refusal to cooperate with Federal law enforcement authorities, is just absolutely unacceptable.

The young lady who was shot and murdered in San Francisco, Kate Steinle, who died in her father's arms.

This is just absolutely unacceptable. It is outrageous, and has resulted in the murder of untold thousands of individuals.

The policies that a lot of these cities, and counties, and states have where they will refuse to honor a detainer, to hand over a criminal defendant in their custody to federal authorities to be deported, is just unacceptable and terribly…

Well, there were enough people that are concerned about that that you ought to know there is an American public concern that maybe the Justice Department will not do this for political reasons.

As Secretary of State, and one who is seeking the highest office in the land, she should have known better.

Because that moon contains at least two to three times more salt water than there is on Earth.

NASA is the premier leader in the world because of the team you have and we have to be able to replenish that team.

So I hope you gather of course from the questions that you have heard from all of us here today that we are counting on you and this Administration to respond, whether it be dumping steel, theft of intellectual property, protecting the…

I mean, this is the equivalent of cyber warfare that the Chinese have declared on us some time ago and it really is about time the United States hammered them back. This is just not acceptable.

How big of a problem is currency manipulation and what steps are we doing to limit its impact?

I just hope that we not only do that as an example, but let the American public know it is an example.

We have to do something to get their attention or they are not going to stop.

What steps are you taking to address the intellectual property theft perpetuated by foreign nations and specifically China?

These American jobs are disappearing and the Chinese will--they do not pay much attention to anything else.

When have you dropped the hammer on them and actually hit them with a tariff?

It is a much bigger deal.

I made sure we included in our 2016 bill guidance to NASA to look to those decadal surveys.

That decadal survey is a good road map for the next 10 years.

We in the Congress included in the 2016 bill, created an Ocean Worlds program for that reason.

I am very pleased to see that the budget request does acknowledge that.

It looks like the IRS is just taking the attitude, hey, we are above the law here.