Summer Lee

We must recognize and proactively address the evolving nature of the threat to aviation.

I have been discussing TSA since early this morning, and I thank you for your indulgence.

We need to just continue to reinforce that is what----

Is there an easy number, an easy call to make to say this is what I saw at door number 2468?

I mean I am disappointed--you happen to be from an airport, so don't think I am calling out Portland, but what is the oversight for that not happening?

What are airports doing about that?

It is enormously difficult to hear at one of our great airports, Atlanta-Hartsfield, that people are entering it as if they are entering a carnival.

I think in the midst of inconvenience, we should also be rational as well.

The Stand Your Ground laws have taken up--their major stand across America, and they have, in essence, created a quandary.

Can you just quickly say, does that work through your issues with respect to that separation, and I think that is enormously important, including the prosecution of terrorists in civilian courts?

I continue to encourage them to interface with the community.

What is the involvement of the FBI lab? Are you getting these labs? I know--excuse me, are you getting these kits? Do you get them on particular cases? Do you get them on more heinous cases?

Let me thank you very much for the lab that many utilize, DNA lab that many law enforcement submit their requests through.

Thanks to the support of Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Jackson Lee, in 2010 the Travel Promotion Act was enacted...

Economics has never killed anybody, and so I think we can move it on out of economics at this point.

Today we must ask the question: How can the United States leverage these developments to secure aviation from terrorist attacks?

However, our discussion on international cooperation does not end there.

I would like to first join the administration in recognizing all the men and women in our intelligence and counterterrorism agencies for their role in yesterday's events that led to the disruption and capture of a suicide bomber from Yemen.

I don't want to leave the impression nor in some of the reports that I have seen that suggest that this strategy does not require additional resources.

You think you have enough of those resources now? Are you able to maximize those resources to deal with the present conditions of the Southern Border in particular?

I have, I think, been somewhere affiliated with the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection for the entire time of my career in Congress.

I would be quite concerned about any legislation suggestion that is countering the strategic plan...

Do you see in that 2012 Strategy an undermining of the National security of the United States of America?

Are you comfortable with the 2012 Strategy that you have put forward?

I truly believe that we have an opportunity to be a friend and that we are doing business with China.