Summer Lee

I would also like to take the opportunity to give a special thanks to my congresswoman, the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th District of Texas for her support in facilitating my testimony here today.

I am very interested in what criteria were used to determine which dealers are allowed to remain in business and those which weren't, particularly minority dealers.

How can we work with the manufacturers to make them whole, to place them back in their community, to keep the jobs and to make them the viable, economic engines that they are?

I think that will be a fair approach to how we move on general aviation.

It is very successful. No high-tech cameras can do a better job than us being aware.

We applaud you for that.

I look forward to us utilizing what I think has been very important.

We appreciate Mr. Sammon and the work that TSA is doing to allow that process to happen.

I think it is important to note that, if we are to have the structure that you are speaking of, we really need to be careful about discussing security-sensitive information in a public rulemaking process.

Mr. Olislagers, we do thank you for your testimony.

It is a matter of some embarrassment to me that we created a whole Department of Homeland Security, and you all haven't figured out how to get ordinary commerce into the Nation's capitol.

You have never been able to justify what you have done here.

I must say I believe that Houston is more vulnerable than the Nation's capitol.

I would think most Americans wouldn't be aware of the potential threat of rad/nuclear materials coming in on an international general aviation flight.

If it was not an accident, meaning some unfortunate pilot that lost their way, but in fact someone who intended to do so, the perimeter entry that you witnessed by video, and the easy access to airplanes, could contribute to that.

A small plane could cause damage in a catastrophic event. Could it not?

I would like to have, along with the staff, specific briefings as you make your way through this process.

I am trying to capture the unpredictability of terrorism.

I do believe you did a disservice in the summary and the conclusions that came about.

I believe there can be a balance.

Well, we have established that there is a threat. We established that there is a vulnerability.

What we do have should be secure. But it does not mean that we cannot look in an open-minded manner at how we can restore general aviation in this area.

Is there a plan? When do you intend to issue it?

You have destroyed the entire industry in the Nation's capitol.

To me, it looks as if you made complete light of some very real and serious issues. I am just appalled.