Hearings with actions make sense. Hearings with inaction are really a waste of time.

I can assure you that, from a legislative standpoint, I will work with my colleagues opposite here to make sure that we act on those.

I am a little troubled when we start talking about international law and its attack on U.S. sovereignty.

We are serious. And even if it goes beyond the normal just waiting, Congress is serious about resolving this.

If you got paid based on the number of kids that came back from abroad, it would be every day you were saying, 'Well, how many people have come back?'

I understand some of your diplomatic issues that you have to deal with from trying to balance diplomacy at the same time as trying to make sure that we protect the rights of parents.

child abduction is really child abuse.

This seems to be a problem that simply is not addressed by current law or policy.

how we can be the heavy, how Congress can be the heavy and say, 'This must stop, and this is the law of the land.'

If we were to put forth a piece of legislation today that says Congress changed its mind because this is not a wise investment of hardworking American taxpayers' dollars, would you endorse that?

What I would tell my constituents, I would say TWIC is a valuable security tool.