Mike McCaul

Let me paint a picture of the horror that I am referring to, because I am not convinced that Federal officials recognize the severity of our situation.

Right now, somewhere on the streets of New York, Miami, or maybe a few blocks away from where we sit in Washington, drug dealers are selling cocaine, heroin, or marijuana.

Puerto Rico is part of the United States. These are American citizens. I believe that the Federal Government needs to do a better job protecting them.

There is no Federal strategy.

The American flag has flown over Puerto Rico for more than a century.

I want to throw out a scenario that I often worry about, and I know that Congressman Duncan shares this concern...

The coordination, I think, between your agency, our Texas Rangers, and Department of Public Safety has never been better

You know, not to invoke Hollywood, but the movie 'Act of Valor,' you know, with the Navy seals, ends--culminates with that scenario...

Cutting funding for the farm bill is a Bad idea! Our food supply in the country is Horrible and cutting funds will make it worst.

I couldn't agree more with what you said and Mr. Keating said about the National security positions.

I do want to express my extreme disappointment that TSA and ICE, given these allegations--and not just allegations but proven fact--did not bring forth the policy-level witnesses that we requested.

A 22-count indictment TSA employees took payments to provide drug couriers unfettered access through the Los Angeles International Airport so that drugs could be smuggled into the United States. That is outrageous and really unacceptable.

One final note; it is unfortunate the Department of Homeland Security in the face of such serious ethical mishaps refuses to provide witnesses from leadership to discuss these matters in the open before the American people.

I view the CBPs and the Border Patrol agents as National security positions.

There have been many reports of Federal employees wasting taxpayer dollars, and in some cases committing crimes, which erodes the trust American people have in our Government.

However, the Pew Research Center interviewed more than 3,000 adults about their views of our Government. Fifty-four percent said the Federal Government is 'mostly corrupt,' while 31 percent said 'mostly honest,' and 11 percent said they…

What I want is more trade not aid.

I totally agree with the engagement issue.

The idea that the Pakistanis could be complicit and working with them, which I personally believe is true, is very troubling to policymakers like ourselves.

I led this committee to Newark when that happened, when flight operations were shut down and thousands of members of the flying public were inconvenienced for nearly 7 hours.

There must be zero tolerance. We have to protect the traveling public.

Frankly, I want to hear today in our question and answers how TSA plans to address it head-on quickly, expeditiously, and respond to the assessment made by GAO.

This is an issue that Nita Lowey and myself worked on in early years about the ingress and egress and the access to the airport and, of course, concern about the perimeter of the airport.

I think the thing that keeps me up the night the most would be the idea of weapons-grade uranium being smuggled from a place like Iran to Venezuela.

I would very much like to get that briefing.