We cannot continue to take this work for granted.

Today, 47% of FAMS believe that retaliation is part and parcel of the FAMS workplace.

I appreciate you calling this hearing. I appreciate our witnesses for their participation also.

Of course, the surest way to fail is not to try at all.

In layman's terms, what percent cargo that is coming to the United States right now is not scanned?

At this point in this hearing today, is there any shipments using your protocol that is coming to the United States that we don't know what is in it?

So your testimony to this committee is that there is no container shipment coming to the United States that we don't know what is in it?

The 9/11 day of horror was partly on the watch of privatized screeners.

The only real difference is cost.

There is no proof in law or fact for that assertion.

I am a pragmatic person. I was a proponent of 100 percent scanning mandate, but understood that fulfilling the requirements would be no easy task.