Bill Keating

Putin must be having a pretty good laugh about this happening right now, don't you think?

This division with the West is exactly what Russia has been gearing toward and continues to undercut a coalition.

Right now in Russia Putin has had a pretty good week with his ceremony being reinstalled as their leader.

This morning's testimony you'd see, generally speaking, bipartisan agreement that pulling out is the wrong approach

To me, Congress can't continue to be AWOL from the discussion of the authorization of use of military force--an AUMF.

To me, that would be a major setback and potentially provoke a nuclear arms race in the region, which has been mentioned.

It remains my view that addressing Iran's meddling across the Middle East won't get easier to manage without a deal.

For sure the transformation that the Obama administration hoped for in our relationship with Iran has failed.

His view of the military is to be there as a foundation, a framework, and support for our diplomatic efforts.

Terrorist attacks do not happen in a vacuum.

There are a lot of tools at our disposal. And it is sheer negligence not to use them.

I refuse to believe that we are helpless to do anything about it and that we are confined to the geopolitical maneuverings of foreign actors.

Please provide the time frame DHS is using to comply with the requirement included in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus to increase the caps on H-2B visas, specifically for returning workers.

Why could not we just do what President Bush did, what President Obama did and just raise the cap on returning workers?

Those things that I mentioned have all saved lives.

So if you could, tell us how cutting this kind of funding helps America be safer?

Eighty-nine Members, bipartisan Members that signed a letter asking the leadership to do that.

American jobs are being hurt by this because by not hiring a full complement of workers, they are closing down for weeks.

This budget does not reflect that commitment to preparedness at all in terms of those responders.

This week marked the 5th anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing and I submit this statement for the record to reflect on the progress made since that dreadful day in April 2013.

My limit is an American fatality, a person that is injured or a person that is killed in these kind of attacks.

So diverting money to the border, when money is a constraint and the budget cuts the local law enforcement...

Yet we have had airport attacks over the last 5 years.

How many terrorist attacks have come over the Mexican border in the last 5 years?

I think this boils down to we can't be expecting all of you to do more, and we are going to have to do more the way the cycle of climate change is going, with less.