"I suspect you will be too."
"I represent Fort Hood, and for the last 4 or 5 years I have been refurbishing barracks and building new barracks at Fort Hood."
"The full-time support for employment... has anybody got any--and I am sure all of you have an issue with keeping your people employed back home while they are serving their country in the Reserve."
"I think we ought to seriously consider taking a look at setting aside funding for this capitalization."
"this committee will not support OMB's proposal to cut the resources available to our law enforcement officers"
"It is a magnet that draws these people in and they are being assaulted and murdered as they come to the United States through Mexico."
"One of the trips I did that I learned the most from is I volunteered to work as a law clerk in the courtroom of Judge Alia Moses in the Del Rio sector under an assumed name."
"I made certain that the Department of Justice has an increase in funding to hire additional prosecutors, additional staff, additional personnel at the southern border, because it is the magnet."
"If you are smuggling drugs, your assets can be seized. If you are smuggling human beings, you cannot seize their assets. That is a change that has to be made in the statute."
"I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the needs that need to be done to keep our homeland safe, our borders secure."
"As a matter of national security, we should know who is coming in our country and who is not."