Mike McCaul

I introduced the bill this morning, along with the Chairman's support to do just that.

If anyone thinks for a moment that Hezbollah and Quds Force, the masters at leveraging and exploiting existing illicit infrastructures globally, are not going to focus on our Southwest border, and use that as perhaps a spring board in…

I have been concerned about the presence of Hezbollah and the Quds Force, the influence of Iran in the Western Hemisphere; in many ways more sophisticated than al-Qaeda and you don't know what you don't know.

I think that is one particular form of legislation. We have seen it effective on the al-Qaeda front and we believe it is going to have a pinch on the Hezbollah and Iran front.

At the end of the day, people are corrupt because of money, because of the great deal of money that can be offered to people...

SBInet in the Arizona Tucson sector was a colossal failure to the tune of almost $1 billion.

So the other issue that is so important to me being from Texas is the border, and what are we doing to better secure the border?

I was not aware of the extensive nature of this corruption within the Department, and thank you for calling that to our attention.

I couldn't agree with you more. I have been talking a lot, this is my fourth term, 8 years, about that border and the threat that is posed from the Southern Border.

When I hear the Secretary say it is going to be another 10 years before that can be done, you know, a lot of my constituents get very frustrated about that.

Investigations recently completed by both the Government Accountability Office and the DHS Inspector General call into question the Department's ability to operate effectively, and without susceptibility to waste, fraud, and abuse of…

The Department is unable to justify the rationale for specific technologies, how much is needed, or even where to put it along the Arizona border.

As a former Federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section, I find that to be extremely offensive.

Today we continue our examination of the Department of Homeland Security's ability to adequately manage its own people, its resources, and billions of taxpayer dollars.

It is appalling that we have Federal officers, Federal agents facilitating working with drug cartels or terrorists.

It should be consolidated.

I think for political purposes, the EPA is targeting and has been directed to target hydraulic fracturing.

It is not just about management; it is about American lives at stake.

In the private sector, if that occurred, people would be held accountable.

The 9/11 Commission basically said that 9/11 was a result of a failure of imagination.

Although Secretary Napolitano has said she wants to build a more cohesive, effective, and efficient 'One DHS,' without integration and consolidation of management functions, a 'One DHS' will not happen.

After nearly a decade, DHS's failure to integrate its management practices remains on the GAO's High-Risk list.

This hearing is the second in a series of oversight hearings to examine the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security has made progress building a more cohesive, efficient, and integrated 'One DHS'.

I think it is important to note that today marks the 1-year anniversary of the brutal killing of Agent Jaime Zapata and shooting of Agent Avila, and I think by the Los Zetas.

I think that was an important point that I was not aware of. I think perhaps we can change that as well.