This Committee has successfully maintained a productive and bipartisan working relationship with the agencies within our jurisdiction.

Texas' two Republican U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, also said they have made securing the border a priority.

More must be done, including additional Border Patrol agents and equipment, to ensure that we can fight the drug cartels and do away with the human trafficking and violence along our border.

We are going to need the buy-in of all of the components of the air traffic control system in order to find the right solutions.

NextGen is, of course, the key component for us to go forward with an FAA reauthorization bill.

I was pleased to hear his position that the census will stay in the Department of Commerce.

It really cannot be overstated: the level and consistency of appropriations you are providing are 'game-changing.'

I think that it was an expansion of the use of the Endangered Species Act to affect global climate change policy rather than the normal use of the Endangered Species Act, which is to protect endangered species.

I believe the process must remain transparent and nonpoliticized.

I think that is clear, and I think it is the expectation of all of us that the actual count is what we would be interested in assuring, and I think we are together on that.

I have introduced twice in two different Congresses bills to increase the research and the data that we have on the violence of the weather.