This whole hearing is making me very nervous, as my first committee meeting.

Is that money being spent and are the leaders living in lavish homes and palaces, or is that being funneled back to the Middle East to buy arms to threaten Israel and also perhaps threaten us?

I am getting the sense that we are sitting ducks here, and why are we waiting to be attacked first, after the lessons of 9/11.

I don't know whether it is because they don't want to confront Chavez or because they don't think Latin America is a priority, but this is our hemisphere, and I know they don't want to provoke Chavez, but the fact is this is provocative…

I don't see a reason to draw a distinction between the threats of gangs in prison and radicalized Jihadis, because they are both threats.

But we have got to find some solutions and not to have us-against-them mentality, when we are trying to protect the United States of America and our citizens.