Mike McCaul

We will work to ensure that this bill is enacted into law.

Words cannot fully convey our sorrow for your loss or our gratitude for the sacrifices and bravery of so many first responders, but through action, we will try.

We cannot be complacent in fully implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

We cannot become complacent in our support of first responders.

We are in unchartered territory.

But we will not bow down to terror.

We have made progress since 9/11, which was the largest terrorist attack in world history.

I hope that the Chairman will renew his effort to address this very important issue when we return to Washington this week.

I would hope that our Embassy and also our people who are involved with aid and trying to develop trade relationships with these countries will not forget, especially when an American citizen is put in jail.

Let me just note that also and for the record, we are not going to forget Sovannara Meach.

Helping governments like the Philippines is not something that I find objectionable, but I do find it objectionable that we are providing any type of assistance that would take away the burden of that government to their own people of…

Again, I want to thank Mr. Royce for his leadership, and Mr. Salmon for his leadership, and we will be watching.

They maintain economic power through the control and harsh repression of anyone who stands in the way of their economic enrichment and political control, and anyone criticizing their policies and actions.

I want to find out what happened. But more importantly, again, this goes back to the systemic issue.

Terrorists have to be right only once, and we have to be right 100% of the time.

Administrator Neffenger, you have a tough job ahead of you to lead this agency but we have confidence in you.

The threat is evolving. But Americans are concerned that TSA is not keeping up with that threat.

We cannot expect private companies to invest tens of millions of dollars if we cannot provide them with any certainty or vision on a return on their investment.

I now recognize myself for an opening statement.

The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:10 a.m.

We expect to explore a range of issues related to the operations of the TSA.

The Committee on Homeland Security will come to order.

The U.S. delisting the headquarters for the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order, also known as EIKO, will pump tens of billions of dollars into the Supreme Leader's personal coffers.

I think all of this led CIA former Director Michael Hayden to warn in front of this committee that the deal has taken inspections from the technical level and put it at the political level.

We have never seen this. Are you going to present that to the Congress?