I have been concerned about the presence of Hezbollah and the Quds Force, the influence of Iran in the Western Hemisphere; in many ways more sophisticated than al-Qaeda and you don't know what you don't know.

I think ideology is important. I think the moderate Muslim is the most effective weapon we have against radical Islam.

I think that is one particular form of legislation. We have seen it effective on the al-Qaeda front and we believe it is going to have a pinch on the Hezbollah and Iran front.

Someone said the war on terror is over. That presumes that radical Islam is over. I would argue that radical Islam is, unfortunately, alive and well.

al-Qaeda's stated goal is to bring down the infidel in Western civilization.

I introduced the bill this morning, along with the Chairman's support to do just that.

if anyone thinks for a moment that Hezbollah and Quds Force, the masters at leveraging and exploiting existing illicit infrastructures globally, are not going to focus on our Southwest border, and use that as perhaps a spring board in…

So the other issue that is so important to me being from Texas is the border, and what are we doing to better secure the border?

I was not aware of the extensive nature of this corruption within the Department, and thank you for calling that to our attention.

At the end of the day, people are corrupt because of money, because of the great deal of money that can be offered to people...

SBInet in the Arizona Tucson sector was a colossal failure to the tune of almost $1 billion.