Political Quotes

“To be clear, this is not a case of the Committee on Homeland Security lacking the jurisdiction needed to inform the legislation before us today. It is a case of a chairman failing to ensure his committee was afforded the right to exercise its jurisdictional authority. House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security, Washington, DC, February 11, 2014. Hon. Michael T. McCaul, Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security, Ford House Office Building, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Hon. Candice S. Miller, Chairman, Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, Cannon House Office Building, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman McCaul and Subcommittee Chairman Miller: We write to urge you to insist upon a sequential referral of H.R. 4005, the ``Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014,'' and to afford the Members of the Committee on Homeland Security (the Committee) the opportunity to consider this important homeland security legislation in an open markup session. Despite H.R. 4005 containing numerous provisions within the Committee's Rule X, clause 1(j) jurisdiction, the Speaker chose not to refer the bill to the Committee upon introduction, opting to refer the bill to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) alone. As you are aware, H.R. 4005, as ordered to be reported by T&I today, contains numerous provisions within the legislative jurisdiction of the Committee.…”