the Border Security Results Act strikes a fair balance between border enforcement and fiscal responsibility

Robust investment to increase physical infrastructure, tactical resources, personnel, and partnerships at our ports of entry is therefore imperative.

I have been proud to work with Chairman McCaul and Chairwoman Miller to craft border security legislation.

We believe that under your leadership the House can pass a bill that both increases border security and improves conditions at our borders.

Before we look at just arbitrarily doubling the size of the Border Patrol, I think we need to thoughtfully consider how the current level of personnel is being utilized and deployed correctly against today's threat.

We need to have better facilities that are actually able to be contemporary with the type of volume and the level of goods that comes through there today.

I will not be satisfied until we get the answers that the American people deserve.

How this attack could have occurred in spite of multiple warnings was still not clear.

We must ensure that we have the best system possible for sharing intelligence.

What concerns me greatly is that the problem at the heart of preventing the Boston bombings is a failure to share information.

I view Iran as one of the greatest threats to the Western Hemisphere.