"I want to thank you and I want to thank our Ranking Member, Mr. Coble, my neighbor, and Members of the Committee for this critical hearing and allowing me to testify before the Subcommittee about the proposed merger between TicketMaster and Live Nation."
"If we don't do something about that situation, then--I can picture someday that situation being equal to the murderers who are preparing themselves in Pakistan at the epicenter of terror."
"We have a very serious problem on the southern border, and I believe, having been to Mexico with the Chairman and dealing with these matters, there is no oversight, there is no enforcement, there is n..."
"Every year the previous administration would submit a budget to the Department--for the Department of Homeland Security that would literally gut or try to zero-out critical programs that deliver Homel..."
"Before we spend any money, increase personnel anyplace, that we do what I think is suggested before, and that is have concepts in place and policy in place so it makes sense."
"Can you commit to this committee right now that this administration will not try to gut or eliminate these vital and successful, successful grant programs?"
"The problem is that they very seldom presented things within the urgency of the time, and I suspect that that was driven by an administration that was not committed to the things that this committee w..."