We need to devise a way to effectively inspect these trash shipments and if there is no way to inspect them adequately, we simply should not allow them into this country.

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

there is no compulsion to doing that.

We'll have to devise a way (to look at them). That's maybe the hardest thing about it is getting them enough work to look at them, but they're all doing special things that are making them stand out individually. We'll just have to see how they play.

In many regards, what is most notable about the President's budget is not what is in the plan, but what has been left out.