I will tell you, both Chairman McCaul and I realize that you cannot conduct proper oversight in a vacuum.

I hope that, Mr. Green, you and I and the Ranking Member would like to do this as well, to work on this effort to get more of the funding back.

I think that it really is a model for the Nation, and it was so successful that it moved us up in terms of the port security grants from No. 3 to No. 2 in the Nation.

This committee will be having an authorization bill I believe coming up in the fall.

I look forward to examining the similarities and differences between security measures here in Houston and those in the Port of Boston.

One-third of our economy is associated with global trade, and that trade comes and goes through our ports.

Finally, I know I have taken more than my time, but I want to ask Mr. Caldwell and the Sheriff, in terms of your recommendations on what needs to be done to ensure that the type of tanker explosion I showed earlier does not occur in the…

I would hope that we have an opportunity I think to work together on that effort as well in a bipartisan effort in the Harris County delegation.

Osama bin Laden's 'war of a thousand cuts' on the U.S. economy has always been a key facet of his strategy.

With our Nation's record debt approaching $15 trillion, we need this now more than ever before.

DHS has way too many of the same people buying the same thing but at different components.