I think this has been a big deal for Houston. It really helped make the port there a major league port.

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Those who had no wish to go international, who sought only to serve their local clientele, learned that they had no choice. Like it or not, they were competing globally because the global market was coming to them.

His big insight was that the customer doesn't care how you're shipping the goods. The customer wants to get it from here to there cheap and on time. The customer doesn't care if it goes by air or land or sea.

Before the container, transporting goods was expensive. So expensive that it did not pay to ship many things halfway across the country, much less halfway across the world.

A lot of the policy discussion seems to assume that once this bill is passed, some of the undocumented aliens will simply leave the country and others will stop coming.