Silvestre Reyes: “We have lost over 6,300 Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 46,000 have been wounded, since September 11…”

By increasing the number of frontline inspectors, Customs and Border Protection can devote the manpower necessary to interdict those individuals who would seek to do us harm.

It is clear to me that the department needs to shore up their process of managing the construction and completion of significant projects.

I think we ought to take the stand that if you are not going to help us in these areas of the world that are critical, not just to us but to the whole world, then we stick with the original strategy and bring them home.

Despite the recent round of proposed reductions, it appears to me that the United States will remain the world's undisputed leader in military aircraft capability for many years to come.