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

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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.

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.

I totally agree with the engagement issue.

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.

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.

What I want is more trade not aid.

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 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 think our enhanced enforcement efforts and the introduction of significant consequences, such as prosecution for multiple crossers and smugglers, have made a tremendous difference.