I just do not see how you could ever solve this problem if you do not deal with the magnet, which is jobs.

The bottom line here is it is not just the high-tech workers. God knows we are going to need...

I think we can all agree that border security has to be part of a comprehensive plan.

the payoffs for the Nation are enormous, we improve our national security, we improve our economy, and we deal with real people who have real problems, and we are trying to give them a second chance on our terms, and some of the people we…

Employer verification, and employers who cheat need to be hit hard.

I think the country is tired of talking about it. I think it is time for us to fix it with the goal in mind that there will be no third wave of illegal immigration.

Sequestration is putting us onto a path of putting our military leaders in a great moral dilemma knowing they cannot send people into battle who are not ready, knowing that people are going to die unnecessarily.

I do not think any expansion of background checks is going to be a deterrent until somebody in a real way suffers the consequences under the current system.

I think if you are looking for some common ground, Mr. Cooper, it seems to me this would be a good place to start.

Maybe bases closing seems to get everybody's attention in Congress.

The only person that could be really affected is the law-abiding person who could be limited.

Any gun should be denied someone who is mentally unstable?

Do you believe that the best way to deter somebody from misconduct is to make sure that prosecution is certain and swift?

I do not think it is going to do much good.

I do not think criminals are going to be limited by any capacity magazine size law.

I agree with Senator Franken we should do something about mental health.

I just do not want her to be limited to ten bullets when the real world--everything is a balance.

Secretary Panetta, you will be missed. You've served our Nation well.

So you talked to him for 30 minutes one time and you never talked to him again, either one of you?

It's certainly up to the President to make all these decisions.

Were there any AC-130 gunships within 1,000 miles of Benghazi, Libya?

I want this committee to continue to ask questions about what the President knew before and during this attack.

Was any airplane launched anywhere in the world before the attack was concluded?

I want to make sure I understand what you said about Syria. Both of you agreed with Petraeus and Clinton that we should start looking at military assistance in Syria; is that correct?

Was any DOD asset ever deployed to help these people before the end of the attack?