When I took over as Chairman of this Committee, working with Senator Carper, we developed a rather simple mission statement for the Committee.
It basically says that no refugee may be admitted until the Director of the FBI certifies to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Dire...
The root cause of this problem is that ISIS exists, that it was able to rise from the ashes of what was a defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq.
I guess, I could sign on to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and say the greatest threat to our national s...
We are a compassionate, humane society.
if we do not address ISIS with what they are doing in Syria and Iraq, then we are not going to be in a position--if we do not work together ...
I think that is, I think, one of our greater vulnerabilities.
I truly do appreciate and I think everybody on this Committee appreciates the fact that you are taking the time to lay out that reality for ...
My final comment, the House just passed the American SAFE Act of 2015. I have introduced the Senate companion bill.
That law was not passed, despite having what could have been a path to passage there with majorities of both Houses and control of the White...
But again, those are costs. And those do get allocated into rates; correct?