Bonnie Watson Coleman

You all have been very active and you have done a lot of, I guess, going back monitoring, making sure that things that you think were agreed upon are being done and ensuring that the security standards are being upheld.

For every dollar that is diverted to erecting the politically-motivated Border Wall, there are fewer resources for doing vital REAL security work.

Thank you for the opportunity today to discuss our work examining the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) foreign airport assessment and air carrier inspection programs.

As stewards of the taxpayer dollars, we have a duty to put valuable taxpayer resources in the areas of greatest need.

I hope to hear more today about where the agency's needs are as well as how they have adjusted to the recent threats.

Are you all looking into seeing if there are any other airports that have similar situations?

We have engaged in that?

Thank you, Chairman Katko, and thank you for convening this hearing.

I would like to hear from the three members of the private sector witnesses about the security of our cargo screening system.

TSA needs to increase resources devoted to coordination and communication by reestablishing the Air Cargo Policy Division.

We must constantly improve our security to keep up with the evolving threat.

Today's topic, air cargo security, is not one that usually receives a lot of headlines and attention, yet it is critical to our economy.

We must continue to prioritize the security of our transportation systems.

We should all be proud that... they were able to achieve compliance for domestic passenger flights in 2010.

We cannot rest on our laurels.

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. This is a 5-minute…

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleague from Florida for yielding me some time to speak on what I consider to be a very important issue. Mr. Chair, I rise to strongly oppose H.R. 2910, the Promoting Interagency…

I am opposed in its current form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Ms. Watson Coleman moves to recommit the bill H.R. 2910 to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with…

I have a motion to recommit the bill with instructions to add language prohibiting the use, really the abuse, of Federal eminent domain authority by large gas pipeline companies. Currently, the law allows pipeline companies--given…

I thank Mr. Smith for including my amendment en bloc and for allowing me to speak on it today. Mr. Chairman, among the amendments under consideration in this en bloc measure is one that I have authored to address various challenges to the…

Unfortunately, I am concerned that the Trump administration's travel ban and rhetoric about Muslims as well as alienation of our friends in Europe is counterproductive to the kind of multilateral cooperation that is necessary.

Do you believe that the current climate with sort-of our leadership at the very top and the way we have been dealing with our so-called allies on the international stage has any impact at all on whether or not they would be amenable to our…

This task force is to deny foreign fighters entry into the United States of America.

Today my colleagues will vote on H.R. 1215, the so-called Protecting Access to Care Act. Disguised as a step toward healthcare affordability, in reality, this legislation tramples on the legal rights of Americans harmed in healthcare…

this memo sends a chilling effect on our justice system both at a prosecutor's level