"AFGE strongly supports the Contract Screener Reform and Accountability Act introduced by Ranking Member Bennie Thompson and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Nita Lowey."
"I urge the TSA to carefully consider the parameters of the SPP RFP for SFO to ensure a stable and productive workforce."
"Is it your understanding that DHS, TSA is reconsidering a decision that did not utilize prevailing wages?"
"H.R. 4115 is a significant step in ensuring all of aviation security, not just that which is performed by Federal employees, receives the oversight necessary to protect the flying public."
"Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman. Let me first of all thank you for this continuing oversight that has been so very effective dealing with concerns of border security, but also the importance of ..."
"As a Member from a border State, I understand how important appropriate infrastructure and staffing at our ports of entry are to not just border communities, but our Nation as a whole."
"Meanwhile, staffing shortages continue to be a problem as CBP remains several thousand officers shy of what its staffing model indicated is necessary to properly staff our Nation's ports of entry."
"On an average day, about $2 billion in trade crosses our land borders, creating jobs and bolstering the economy in cities and towns across America."
"Those of us who live on the border in Texas don't particularly have our hair on fire unless provoked."
"CBP previously estimated it would need $6 billion over 10 years to modernize existing ports of entry to meet its current security and facilitation missions."
"I hope to hear from Mayor Leeser about his thoughts on ways we can work cooperatively to provide the infrastructure and staffing communities like his need."