"I remember distinctly the creation of TSA being on the Select Committee on Homeland Security."
"If I was to splash a flight attendant with orange juice and water, and I know there are flight attendants there and I have great respect for them, I assume they would still be standing."
"What you have is a compact area that flight attendants are dealing with passengers and under the new laws, no doors will be open for their relief."
"You need to stop this now. These cause bleeding, these cause injury, these can cause a terrible tragedy."
"It is very difficult for me to believe that we don't have mandatory training for our flight attendants."
"I always have said this from the time that I have been on this committee, while things are calm, people make suggestions as to why you have the Homeland Security Committee."
"Having lived through 9/11 as a Member of the United States Congress, having gone to Ground Zero during the recovery period, and seeing that kind of pain..."
"I have made it very clear that I believe this is wrong-headed and really misguided."
"And it should respond to this crisis of separating our families."
"I ask you to join me in the roundtable discussions."
"I think we should jump right into it, jump right into climate change, and find that balance."