"I want to make sure that this law works. I think its goals and intentions are noble."
"The existence of threats does not increase the vulnerability that the systems might be."
"In El Paso, there are bound to be many mixed-status families amongst those 200,000 uninsured people that I represent in our community."
"If you somehow through this system, HealthCare.gov, learn that the parent is here illegally, would you act on that information, and how would you act on that information?"
"You know, on one end of the spectrum, you could pat down every single person who enters a Federal facility; search every square inch of their cars they are driving into a Federal garage."
"When you have an event like the Navy Yard's shooting, how does that change your assessment?"
"We still think--believe that it has served us well."
"I would like to follow the line of questioning initiated by Mr. Stivers."
"The family made an application for him to be interred and memorialized at Fort Bliss National Cemetery. That was denied."
"A deeply unpopular decision that the NCA made was to xeriscape that cemetery, remove all of the grass, put in gravel, rock, and dirt."
"I want to know what we can do on an interim basis to beautify it, to make it a little bit more hospitable for visitors to the cemetery."
"Nobody wants to kneel on gravel when they are visiting a gravesite at Fort Bliss."