While I understand the need for vendors and airline employees to access various areas of the airport to do their jobs, I also understand the need to maintain security.

After this incident, TSA asked the Aviation Security Advisory Committee to reevaluate airport employee screening protocols.

I would like to hear from the Deputy Secretary Mayorkas on how, through his leadership, substantial improvements can be achieved at the Department.

This committee works well when we can work in a bipartisan manner to achieve the shared goals of advancing the Department of Homeland Security.

I think this subcommittee can be a great leader in this issue, and we can get in front of this movement.

Over the past 5 years, democracy and progress have been marching forward in Africa and the Middle East.

As someone involved in this issue for many years, I am not surprised by the overwhelming support that H.R. 1731 has garnered. Today, the House has the opportunity to join with the President and stakeholders from across our critical…

Reclaiming my time, I accept the gentleman's reinterpretation of the statement, and we will go forward. Let me just say that, yesterday, on a 7-year sunset on an Intelligence bill, the House resoundingly voted for this very same amendment…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I now yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ratcliffe), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, my close ally and colleague on this legislation.

I have no additional requests for time, so I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hurd), a member of the Homeland Security Committee.

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time. I am prepared to close if the gentleman from Mississippi is prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I yield to the gentleman from Texas, my chairman. Mr. McCAUL. Again, I just want to clarify what I believe to be the record, and that was I was not opposed to this amendment going to the floor for a full and fair debate. I respect the…

I yield to the gentleman from Texas. Mr. McCAUL. I must say that, obviously, since the time the Rules Committee discharged the amendment, there has been tremendous opposition from industry, which concerns me, about the participation in…

Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I will read for the Record the statement my chairman made in Rules. Mr. McCaul said: There is an amendment that has a 7-year sunset provision, and I will be honest, I will not oppose that. I think 7 years is ample…

I yield to the gentleman from Texas. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for his question and would say that I do not completely share your view of that clause. I assure you that incentivizing companies to do…

This amendment would authorize the Department of Homeland Security's program to provide web- based security services to U.S. Federal civilian agencies. The program is known as EINSTEIN. When fully implemented, it is expected to provide all…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not in opposition to the amendment. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I appreciate, as I said, the maker of this amendment. Let me be clear, I offered the very same amendment in markup. It failed on a party-line vote, and this is democracy; but a little thing that concerns me is that, when we went to the…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not in opposition to the amendment. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

The McCaul amendment makes several technical and clarifying changes to H.R. 1731 to reflect feedback from committee Democrats, Department of Homeland Security, and stakeholders. Last week during committee consideration, the gentleman from…

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not opposed to the amendment. The CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding the time. Mr. Speaker, though I support H.R. 1731, the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act, as approved by voice vote in my committee, I rise to express my disappointment with…

What is concerning is that in the absence of required procedures to check the feasibility of these programs, GAO reports that six DHS acquisitions have spent $5 billion to date.

The Federal Government's failure to implement appropriate policies and build the robust governance infrastructure necessary to tackle biological threats came to a head last fall.

Unfortunately, the Federal Government has been slow to respond.