For all the money we have spent, how can we develop a relationship of trust with the Pakistani government when, in fact, you have what I would call a fairly weak President and an ISI that is rogue at the very least?

I am heartened to know the last thing Osama bin Laden saw before death was an American soldier bearing down on him with an American flag on his shoulder.

I have introduced H.R. 915, a bill to codify the BEST program in law to help ensure the program.

I would also like to highlight the important supporting role that State and local law enforcement play in the Federal Government's border security.

Members of Congress have a responsibility to ask what kind of support system or benefactors could have allowed bin Laden to maintain this safe haven?

At the very least, whether there was complicity or incompetence, at the very least there has not been a high priority in targeting senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.

I think the awareness of the industry has improved.

I think sometimes we legislate, and there is a law of unintended consequences.

I look forward to working with you and my time is about ready to expire. But I would like to work with you and the Department in a bipartisan way to enhance this effort because I do think the money confiscated could be directed back…

I am outraged that this administration refuses to honestly assess the active threats on our Southern border.

It seems to me that all the money we are seizing down there ought to go back towards our border security operations.

It is in our own security interest. It is in our own self interest.