This is truly unacceptable.

If your Department cannot immediately provide the subcommittee with our requested information, we will explore more formal ways to obtain it.

I look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the actions of the Department, what they are doing to ensure that the component agencies are aware of what is expected of their personnel assigned and conducted their own personal…

Billions of taxpayer dollars have been continually put at high risk and multiple key security programs do not fully meet the Department of Homeland Security's needs because DHS senior leadership is failing to hold acquisition programs…

This is just the latest example demonstrating how your Department has not lived up to the important expectation of an open and accountable Government.

I do think those integrated fixed towers are really going to transform the security down there on the border.

I thought that was a real positive step to say, hey, here is some good news of what we are doing on the border.

I remember I used to think that the Secretary of Homeland Security should be somebody with like our background, a prosecutor, law-enforcement type.

The American people's faith in Government was severely shaken.

What does DHS have to hide on its participation in these conferences?

Because I think the current impression with a lot of the American people is that there is no security at all down there.