Clearly, UAVs have many beneficial uses in the National airspace and, when used within proper parameters, can serve as an important tool in securing the homeland.

I would first like to thank Chairman McCaul for holding this hearing on a very timely subject.

Let me start by saying I strongly support the administration's decision to identify and remove aliens who may pose a threat to National security or public safety.

The program must be administered to guard against racial profiling and protect community-police relations.

I strongly support the administration's decision to identify and remove aliens who may pose a threat to National security or public safety.

I have no further requests for time. Since the gentleman from New York is prepared to close, I also am prepared to close. I would like to express my gratitude to all the members of the Committee on Homeland Security for their unanimous…

We owe it to our Nation's first responders to ensure that they have the resources needed to perform their jobs and to get it right when we alter the allowable uses for those funds. Getting it right in this body requires deliberation and…

I have no more speakers. If the gentleman from New York has no more speakers, then I am prepared to close.

I have no further requests for time, and I am prepared to close. I would note that my support for the SMART Port Security Act is rooted in not only the improvements in the TWIC Program but also in what it seeks to do in order to improve…

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, with more than 40 bipartisan cosponsors, passage of this measure will make a strong statement of support for reform of the TWIC issuance process and American workers. I compliment the…

I thank the gentleman from New York for his commitment. I reserve the balance of my time.

Our Nation's ports are as diverse as the people they serve. The importance of this infrastructure to the global supply chain cannot be overstated. Enactment of H.R. 4005 will help ensure that our limited security resources can be targeted…

Today, I rise in support of my bill, H.R. 3772, which seeks to designate the United States postal facility located at 150 South Union Street in Canton, Mississippi, as the First Sergeant Landres Cheeks Post Office. I introduced this bill…

So your testimony is that some of this cargo is already here before we look at it?

But, Madam Secretary, you know, Congress said you shall do it.

I think implicit in that is if it is not feasible, practicable, affordable; whether it would have undue interference.

Well, I am aware of information that you have shared from time to time.

Over the past decade, seemingly as a result of United States' counternarcotics efforts in Mexico and Central America, the Caribbean region has become a key transshipment point for drugs flowing into the United States.

America counts millions of Muslims among our citizens. And Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country.

many of our tips to uncover active terrorist plots in the United States have come from the Muslim community.

the cooperation of Muslim and Arab-American communities has been absolutely 'essential in identifying, and preventing, terrorist threats.'

The Department of Homeland Security has made unprecedented efforts to better secure our borders in recent years, with the support of Congress.

As the main Members of Congress who advocated for collective bargaining rights for TSOs, we heralded your February 2011 decision to confer TSOs those critical workplace rights.

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for allowing me the time. I have a number of thoughts on the underlying bill before us today, but I'd like to take the opportunity to discuss the Transportation Worker Identification Credential…

If there is a disconnect, I want you to help us identify it and, you know, these are American companies, American jobs that we could do.