Elijah Cummings

They try as they might to obey the law. That's what they do.

Congress needs to step in to ensure that TSA finally addresses these security vulnerabilities.

GAO also found that TSA was--and I quote--not using a risk-informed approach--end of quote--to its covert tests.

According to GAO, nine security vulnerabilities were identified through covert tests since 2015, and I quote, as of September 2018, none--none--had been formally resolved.

We need to know why these longstanding vulnerabilities are not being adequately addressed.

Unfortunately, this is part of a larger trend.

The way these children are treated does not reflect American values.

They do not get it so much so that they have six weeks on just to deal with the humanitarian crisis just to help these people in a short-term way--they will not even pass that.

My Democratic colleagues and I--we are joining in introducing the Covert Testing and Risk Mitigation Improvement Act this morning.

I am introducing the Covert Testing and Risk Mitigation Improvement Act, which would establish standards for covert testing and require TSA to track and report its progress in resolving vulnerabilities.

The administration's actions are not helping aviation security. They are harming it.

The Trump administration is taking more than 350 of these critical TSA employees, diverting them away from their primary responsibilities, that is, securing our Nation's airways, and sending them to the southern border.

The Trump administration... is actually aggravating them

Not using a risk-informed approach

None--none--had been formally resolved.

We had Elizabeth Warren in my district and we were talking about the CARE Act.

Substance use, opioid use disorder is a brain disorder. It is a disease that requires treatment.

I've a great nice who's a year-and-a-half year old who is just the joy of my family, and I want to change this before she gets to middle school and becomes at higher risk.

We need real infrastructure, and I'm sure that's why the SOR money hasn't even touched the community level yet.

I support this CARE Act to help heal our communities and give the actual funding that's needed to address substance use disorder and mental health in our country.

We have not come here just to speak for those who have died. We've come to speak for the living and the dead.

We have to be aware of this dynamic in medicine, and make sure that the physician gets to make the call.

Narcan saves lives, and we need to use it, and we need to distribute it.

If you have overcome addiction, you have done the hardest thing that a human being will ever have to do.

The stigma around substance use disorder is pervasive in our society. And I think all of us need to re-set our thinking that it's not a moral failing.