"I also look forward to your perspective on ensuring that the aviation security fee... is utilized as a resource for enhancing aviation security."
"So then would you take the information that you have and the need that you would have to interview individuals no longer with government to some other element in the Justice Department and ask that it..."
"I'm glad to hear that and sorry to have to deal with that issue, because I certainly am alarmed by the tone that the President Trump has said in his first few days in office."
"We support the work that you need to do, the resources that you need to do it, and the independence that you need to do it."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I yield back."
"We need balance. We need accountability. And we need fairness."
"And thank you to each of you for raising what I think is a very important, complex list of issues, actually."
"I think that you are quite accurate on that, that we may be in a situation right now where we are in an unprecedented environment."
"we're really focusing on the fact that your infrastructure hasn't held up the way it should and there, therefore, have been serious injuries and loss of life"
"So do you anticipate a certain amount of money that you need in order to accomplish this, both long term and then incrementally to get to that long term?"
"I mean, when does that person sleep? That's a little scary to me."