How do you hold people accountable when you cannot discipline them?

I think this is a disgrace that their reputation, I see--and they were in some dangerous, dangerous places in Afghanistan, down in Helmand Province trying to deal with the opium exportation there, doing heroic work.

The signal that you're sending to every other Secret Service agent... is that those folks were not penalized at all.

I think it would have been a clear signal... that those two guys screwed up, and they're gone for now.

I'm going to make a recommendation that we have--we adopt legislation that requires that Secret Service keep video for 30 days.

I think that is very, very important for retail investors and pension funds, things like that.

the fact that you were not notified of this incident for 5 days concerning your two agents is totally unacceptable.

I recently drafted a bill called the Maker-Taker Conflict of Interest Reform Act.

The President has said on many occasions that he would prefer to have a comprehensive, well thought out, well structured, thoroughly debated, data driven immigration law introduced rather than using this more crude mechanism.

Immigration could help that if it were structured in a positive way which would address that gap.

I would hope that our immigration policy would be data driven to some extent.

Humanity has progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of an information revolution.