Summer Lee

We need to be fiscally responsible. We need to assess our needs.

I have a vigorous disagreement, and I am hoping that the administration will courageously hold the line.

This is a time for tough choices, tough decisions, and strong commitments to secure this Nation.

In the most recent budget that you have analyzed, what is your guess on that?

I was trying to catch the gentleman from Georgia's comments about wasting money, but I know that you can't put a price in America on loss of life.

A study produced by Booz Allen Hamilton last year indicated a 30-day closure of the Port of New York and New Jersey would result in an economic impact on the U.S. GDP of over $5 billion and loss of 50,000 jobs.

So, in essence, we are creating necessary jobs.

I take issue with you saying that we are trying make political points with Officer Terry's death. To me it is personal. Okay? It is not political.

I would like to put into the record that we recently passed, Mr. Secretary, H.R. 82, which allows anyone to carry a gun into another State where they have a permit.

I would ask the Chairman that our Committee begin hearings on that because we need to be a partner with you.

This is an ongoing program that started in essence under the Bush administration?

I think my former mayor, Mayor Lee P. Brown was a drug czar, but he was also the head of the Major Chiefs Association.

I just will end on the note of the way I framed it, is that we are in this tight job market.

I would like to have the kind of oversight and regulation addressing the question of competitiveness.

I believe he should not have an oval office meeting with the President until he agrees before he walks into that oval office that he will not murder, kill and maim the people of Camp Ashraf.

We will work through that for the gentleman. Thank you. I yield--I yield back. Thank you.

I think compromise and the recognition of changing times is vital, and all of us have heard the refrain of creating jobs.

I am going to make an official request that you should carry back to the leadership to answer...

The responsibility that we have is to do the right thing.

One thing I think that none of us will disagree with is that we support our local law enforcement.

This legislation may be overly broad, that it too easily circumvents Internet users.

I see them as the next nucleus of job creation in America.

I think we have a consensus that online piracy is a both devastating and destructive element of the Nation's economy.

This particular legislation may be overly broad, that it too easily circumvents Internet users.

I think we have to have that answer from whatever resources we can get.