In my district, we're getting hammered by unemployment. They're looking at the bonuses, and they're saying 'We don't get bonuses when our company goes down. We get laid off.'

Thank you. Madam Secretary, I have questions relating to the border.

There is no 'we' here. Education starts with the parents and the local, moves up to the state.

This was governors joining together. Now, he freely admits that... the federal government makes it happen.

I feel like I woke up in the morning, and missed the big meeting where the federal government was declared God.

I don't hear a lot of people in my district, wandering around, going, 'Oh, you know, I don't like these fusion centers.'

Let me first ask a quick question on the, separate from the structural problems, isn't it, as far as the deficit that you are running in the relationship to income and so one, hasn't it always been true in the Post Office that the money is…

We have been frustrated. I have asked to insert into the record a three-page memo I got this morning from Sheriff Leatherman from Noble County.

My biggest frustration is that ICE--under both Republican and Democratic administrations--has not done enough to support the program.

I am concerned that counternarcotics is not as much in the administration plans or some of the committee plans.

the reason FEMA is in your agency isn't because of tornadoes and floods; it is there in case we have a catastrophe

it is important that in what is perceived as a little bit of a back-pedaling on focus on terrorism, that doesn't turn into wholesale retreat