We have to write a bill, and we have to put the rules and the specs, commonsense stuff.

We ought to review where the outliers are, but we also ought to fund appropriately and also have the judges really pay attention to the career Social Security people.

They could sanction him; say, you can no longer practice before the Social Security Administration.

Chief Vitiello, would you support capping the number of agents getting 100 hours at 90 percent until an audit is done that would say you need to go above that?

We have spent $2.9 billion on the Port Security Grant Program with no metrics to measure whether or not we have actually improved our security.

If we are going to spend $100 million this year on Port Security Grants, and the total bill for bringing our tier one ports is $2.5 billion, we are 12½ years from bringing them.

They are the best run grant program in the government. It is not big.

We cannot stop every attack that is going to come to this country, but we can certainly make it much more difficult.

Sending the dollars where the greatest risk is should be our priority.

We need to have a better approach than 2 to 4 percent scanning that we are seeing today.

Why would we make them do it again? I mean, their TWIC card is not forever.