Bennie Thompson actually said...

"So, very succinctly, have we put that strategy in writing so that Members of Congress and others might know what it is?"

"A number of us for quite a while have been trying to get a comprehensive border strategy, and we have tried to encourage the Department to come up with it."

"Our energies will be wasted and our opportunities will be squandered if we do not work towards the goal of making the people of this Nation safer."

"Without it, we cannot be certain that our border control resources are strategic and well-coordinated."