Henry Cuellar

The National Guard's new aerial support will provide 'eyes in the sky' that will increase Border Patrol's response capabilities.

I do not believe it is in the best interest of the United States.

I have supported the National Guard's presence along the U.S.-Mexico border because I believe it has been a critical component for CBP's mission to protect and secure our borders.

I support the partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense aimed at providing aerial surveillance support for U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the Southern Border.

As of April 2012, Border Patrol headquarters officials were working to develop border security goals and measures, but they have not given you a target time frame as to when they will be implementing that.

I think Members of Congress want to see those Border Patrol at the border instead of having them wrack up millions of dollars of overtime at headquarters.

I want to see--and I can understand, I understand the whole argument you never know when they have to travel to one part.

I would look forward working with you and look at alternatives as we go up there.

I have always said we have done a good job with the men and women in green, but we need the men and women in blue.

Thank you for looking at the administrative cost reductions, the duplicative programs that you have.

We're all for cutting the deficit, but we have to set certain priorities, and I think emergencies, border security, our military should be some of the priorities that we have.

If the Super Committee doesn't come up with any suggestion, which I hope they do, then there's going to be a sequester.

When he's State-trained, I think that's--again, nothing against Washington bureaucrats, but when you get somebody from the State who has been involved, like you, Mr. Kidd, at the State level and you put him in charge of FEMA, he has…

I voted no because it cut FEMA, State, and local programs by a staggering amount of 55 percent below the enacted level.

Do you agree with me that the Stafford Act needs to be updated?

I agree wholeheartedly with Chief Kidd that the assistance that we were requesting was being provided from a response perspective.

I certainly want to thank him for all the work that he's done, and certainly I'm happy to please--pleased to join forces with him to address another issue that's vital to the concern of Texans.

I think the new FEMA is certainly a lot better than what we saw in Katrina and a lot of places.

Again, like I said at the very beginning, I respect all of you all. I appreciate it.

I just feel that if you are going to attack the border and call it a National--say that it is doing business in a war zone, I was just asking what was your information.

El Paso is a beautiful, vibrant place, where the hospital is so fearful that they want their own police force to guard against Mexican criminals coming in to get wounded cartel members.

But there are two things that you all said in the report that really upsets a lot of us that live on the border, because you make it sound like there are no nice people living on the border.

I think we have the best working relationship that we have had with the Republic of Mexico in the last 175 years.

We can't protect America unless we reform immigration law in the United States.

I am not going to try to spin this into a political theater event.