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

It is disappointing to me, therefore, that the President in his budget chose to terminate the funding for the Interoperability Emergency Communications Grant program.

But this is a program that is not an expensive program that allows you to do more than you otherwise could.

With the welcome news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, I want to join the Chairman in thanking everyone involved.

the Administration's proposal to limit Operation Stonegarden to the Southwest Border is ill-advised, and I am glad that it has been repeatedly rejected by Congress.

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

I hope your comments mean that you will endorse the broader bill that the Chairman and I have introduced.

I think this was an excellent hearing because of the extraordinary witnesses that we have.

I am increasingly worried about the impact not only on the Air Force, but on the entire Department, of the Pentagon having to operate under short-term continuing resolutions.

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

Despite the killing of Osama bin Laden, we must never forget that the battle against Islamist extremism will continue.

Our government's first priority is to protect against terrorism and the public will accept a certain level of intrusion and inconvenience at our airports.

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…

From my perspective, it just still seems prudent to temporarily, at least, elevate the threat level until the assessment is completed.

This year, we will commemorate the worst attack ever on the United States. In doing so, we must ask ourselves, 'Are we safer?'

NCTC plays an indispensable role in that regard.

Several years ago, before you assumed your current position, there actually was a problem with the Maine State troopers having interference from the New Hampshire State troopers when they were using the same channels in Southern Maine.

But although the known traveler gets screened, assuming I am reading your passport correctly, the baggage is screened through the X-ray machine and the passenger goes through a metal detector, but there would not be the kind of screening…

Regardless of my individual view on whether that is a wise operation or not, there is no doubt that as usual our military has operated superbly.

We called upon the Administration to create a strategy to ensure a unity of effort among Federal departments and agencies.

Border security is critical not only to prevent individuals from entering the United States illegally for whatever reason, but also to stop...those who are determined to harm us.

I rise today to join with my colleague from Washington in introducing legislation, the Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2011, to prevent future unfair administrative cuts in Medicare home health payment rates. Home health has…

It has cost the taxpayers literally billions of dollars.

I am informed that he pled guilty today.

It has been a decade since the anthrax attacks that left 5 people dead and 17 sickened.