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 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.

There must be zero tolerance. We have to protect the traveling public.

What I want is more trade not aid.

I totally agree with the engagement issue.

we have called on the Department of Homeland Security to produce a comprehensive strategy to secure the border.

we are open to a new, more robust standard if it supplements operational control and if it better describes the level of security at the border.

Using apprehensions as a measure of progress tells us an incomplete story, really.

How can we possibly measure whether the border is secure or not?

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.