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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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

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

The Committee on Homeland Security will come to order.

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