Brian Higgins

In Iranian political and terror ethos, there is the near enemy, Israel. But there is also the far enemy, the United States of America.

I commend my colleague, Jeff Duncan, for his bipartisan resolution to include as an area of focus the Western Hemisphere in our Nation's counterterrorism efforts.

I just think there's a tendency sometimes to dance around this stuff.

The Lord's Resistance Army emerged from northern Uganda in the 1990s.

I think we should just call this what it is. It's a kill and capture mission.

It is an organization that is committed to violent jihad. It is an organization that we identify as a major threat.

It seems when there is a physical presence in 15 major cities in the United States and 4 major cities in Canada that the potential of their nefarious activity is certainly there and present.

The U.S. cannot allow its national security to be held hostage by nearly two decades of unfulfilled expectations in Pakistan.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses on how to further increase our counterterrorism cooperation with an important and democratic friend, India.

The U.S.-India relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world for the 21st century.

What the American people should have expected in the aftermath of 9/11 is a bureaucratic response that is lean, muscular, transparent, and effective.

We created a bureaucracy that is not meeting its moral and operational objective.

This is my concern, we had a hearing in this committee a couple of months ago on Hezbollah.

Hezbollah in Arabic is the Party of God. It is a Shia group that is committed to violent jihad.

It has infiltrated the Western Hemisphere, but more directly it has infiltrated the United States with a presence in 15 cities.

Pretty clear to me of what their intent is, whether it is immediate or longer-term, and that is a profound concern.

Let me just--to me, that is very disturbing. You say that they have a presence in the United States and North America generally so as to have leverage, to be positioned that if they are attacked, they can attack.

The issue of using technology for like the NEXUS pass it makes a lot of sense, but if you don't have the capacity at the bridge to get those vehicles to those, you know, expedited review and approval, then it doesn't do you much good and…

Moving forward, I want to ensure that the limited infrastructure funds available be targeted in such a way where we are looking at volume of traffic, we are prioritizing it so that we can maximize both security, as well as expedite the…

Should border management--or pre-clearance has been deemed dead by the Secretary.

I just want to raise the issue of congestion at land ports of entry, and it poses a number of problems relative to security.

In the aftermath of 9/11, we were all taught that we are not at war as a Nation with Islam; we were at war with those who hijacked that religion and used it to justify their murderous and cowardly acts.

the agreement envisions future discussions, in which Kaesong would be considered for purposes of the agreement part of South Korea.

The two most powerful forces in these movements throughout that region seems to be technology and youth.

I think what we have learned with Egypt and the other countries in the Middle East and North Africa is that there is often a very, very different view of us from the regime to the people themselves.