Susan Collins

There is some good news in your testimony on the issue of applying new data to these holders now.

GAO found that TSA's background checking process is not even designed to detect fraud.

We need to have a leader of this effort and I hope you will relay that we are continuing to push on that, as well.

This one, in particular, is very frustrating to me because Senator McCaskill and I repeatedly wrote to Secretary Napolitano.

I believe that one of the shortcomings in preparedness in this country is our preparing the communities on a consistent basis on what to do in the event of an emergency.

So getting information to the public before disaster strikes helps to save lives, reduce property damage, and prepare people for what is coming.

In this 10th year after 9/11, adopting this legislation I think is one of the best things to do to show that we have learned the lessons from 9/11.

Security ought to be No. 1.

But here all of a sudden--and we do not know whether this is in Speaker Boehner's proposal or not because we have not seen the language--we have the possibility of actually achieving this as a resolution of this larger crisis in the next…

Limiting the travel of terrorists is a key way to protect our country.

I have concerns based on GAO's findings about duplication, a lack of communication, and coordination.

What worries me--and, Commissioner, I am going to use your examples--is many of our colleagues look and see unobligated funds, or funds that have been obligated, but it is 2 years later and they have not been spent, and they make two…

I am concerned about people being approved to come, but I am concerned about the 58,000 already here.

It is vital to review these lists before departure and not once the plane is airborne.

I think this is going to be a real battle for us.

Well, either the program is needed or it is not needed.

But earlier today you and Under Secretary Beers indicated that there are still some problems with databases and their capacity to interrelate.

Terrorists clearly are going to constantly probe our defenses and constantly innovate.

Security is everyone's business, that terrorists hide and train and plan in rural areas and not just in the areas that they are apt to strike.

I support TSA's and DHS's expansion of the See Something, Say Something campaign.

These programs, in my judgment, also do not focus sufficiently on corruption in the passport issuance process overseas.

Targeting travel is at least as powerful a weapon against terrorists as targeting their money.

Senator Lieberman and I authored the law to give immunity to individuals who make such reports.

Our focus should be on trying to detect, deter, and prevent the attack in the first place.

But the fact remains that al-Qaeda and other terrorist threats are not going away.