"What are you doing by way of negotiation to exert this country's considerable leverage to ensure that our agents assigned there have the means to protect and defend themselves?"
"I want to be absolutely sure that if my members endure and embrace the risks to go over to Mexico and fight this war that they will have full diplomatic coverage and the peace of mind knowing that God..."
"You know, Chairman, I applaud you for characterizing these organizations as they should be: Narcoterrorists."
"This is growing into another Afghanistan right on our border, and unfortunately, as much as I would like to say, 'Don't send my guys there if we can't protect them,' we play a critical role there and ..."
"I will say this: While the FBI stats may show that the overall statistics on violent crime may have gone down, violent crime committed against us, law enforcement officers, increased over 41 percent l..."
"If we send an unarmed agent to Mexico without full diplomatic status, and they are murdered like Jaime Zapata, how does our country demand extradition if the killers are caught?"
"Cooperation with the Mexican government is in the interest of both countries, as is an integrated law enforcement approach to effectively target and defeat the cartels."
"We don't ask our soldiers to go into combat unarmed, and we should not do the same to our Federal law enforcement agents."
"I respectfully ask that this subcommittee continue to seek answers from the State Department and the heads of our Federal law enforcement agencies."
"I completely agree with you that that targeting, now, of U.S. law enforcement is a game changer, both in Mexico and in the United States."
"That is less than we are currently spending in Afghanistan on any given week, and yet I think the stakes in Mexico and the relationship in Mexico and the United States are enormous and certainly of Na..."
"I don't think we are doing enough to control the flow of weapons into Mexico."