Bennie Thompson: “I want to begin the hearing by thanking Congresswoman Dina Titus for bringing the committee to Las Vegas to examine how…”

At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.

If ICE has nothing to hide, DHS must make its facilities available.

There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.

Suffice to say, disaster response is no joke.