One thing you have referred to several times is potential opportunities for mining.

I wish the Obama administration had accepted this Subcommittee's repeated invitations to send a representative

I am hopeful that they will provide witnesses at subsequent hearings.

The real scope I believe of this hearing, and of the concern, is on the scope of Federal power, and in particular the scope of Federal power to engage in targeted killings.

I guess I am always a little skeptical of a statistic that regardless of what it demonstrates proves the end being put forth.

Unfortunately, S. 744 puts the legalization of the illegal population before the completion of the necessary tools to avoid the creation of a new illegal alien population in the future.

The legalization provisions of the bill make widespread fraud very likely if this, in fact, goes into effect.

I think we should all be champions of legal immigrants, making the system work, and not just welcoming but celebrating legal immigrants.

Unfortunately, it is the only hurdle that matters because receipt of this RPI status is the amnesty.

I wanted to go back and revisit the topic we discussed earlier of border security, which is proponents of this legislation argue that it provides for real metrics for border security and triggers that are meaningful.

If a trigger is certain to occur, then I would suggest it is not a meaningful trigger that is measuring anything.

Thank you for the excellent work that you and your agency have done, in particular over the last week in dealing with and apprehending the Boston bomber.