Mr. Chairman, thank you. And my time is up, but I do have another couple of questions for a second----

It has been 4 years since this committee passed the port security legislation, which became the SAFE Port Act of 2006.

Are you talking about specific types of cargo, or the ports from which they came being a different risk assessment, or the companies that are transporting being a different risk assessment?

What have you found that we can do that would be more and better coordinated with all of the different entities that can contribute to security to make our ports as secure as possible?

Do you feel that you had the sufficient number within the 3-mile limit?

none of us can do it fully on our own; all together, we can do a much better job.

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