a question for secretary napolitano. as you know, republicans in congress say they won't support comprehensive immigration reform until the border is secure. so with that, can you give a timeline on when the border will be secure, or do you think that that argument is political posturing and they keep moving the goalpost? >> well, look. we think these resources we've asked for matter. we think that they matter because they will argue the efforts that have been underway accelerated over the past 18 months. and the plain fact of the matter is, is that the border is as secure now as it's ever been, but we know we can always do more. and that will always be the case. it's a big border. it's nineteen hundred and sixty miles across that southwest border. it's some of the roughest, toughest, geographical terrain in the world across that border. and so the notion that you're going to seal that border somehow is something that anybody who's been involved in the actual doing of law enforcement, the front office work, the front lin

is to enforce the law and secretary of homeland security janet napolitano's job is to enforce the law. because you disagree with the law means nothing. you enforce that law. you're a law enforcer. that's how our constitution is set up. that's the power invested in them. if our founding fathers had wanted them to be legislator, they woull have written it into the constitution. if the people in this country wanted them to be legislators, i can tell you what they would have done. they would have amended the constitution and handed the power to change federal law over to john morton, janet napolitano, or maybe the president of the united states. that's not who we are, that's not the way it is. . we must dwevend the rule of law. if -- we must defend the raleigh of law. if we are going to allow it to come from the american people. and from the president of the united states who taught constitutional law at the stellar university of chicago school of law to think that that's the case, that he doesn't understand any better and thinks he can get awwy with it, no, we can read our history and ou

napolitano: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. napolitano: thank you, madam speaker. h.r. 4349 would update the statutory allocation of electric power generated at the hoover dam located on the colorado river to its various users. the current allocation of this hydropower resource expires at the end of fiscal year 2017. in this regard, 4349 would increase the amount of electricity will be marketed by the western area power administration, known as wapa, and provide to native american tribes and other previously excluded entities the opportunity to acquire federal power. the allocation will remain in effect from 2017 to 2067. h.r. 4349 has 43 bipartisan co-sponsors. this hydroelectric generation, which provides renewable, affordable and accessible resource to the american southwest in this bill is being

janet napolitano misinformed the american peoe, she hadn't read the bill. eric holder had nt read the bill. i don't know if john morton read the bill, but he didn't want to enforce the bill. posner had no business sticking his nose in it whatsoever and carried it all the way to the chinese. i can't stand here on the floor of the house of represtatives without raising anssue of president calderon back behind where i'stanng now spoke to a joi session of congress and had to lecture us on how he strongly disagrees with arizona's immigration law. if he does, he also disagrees with the federal united states federal government's immigration law. it mirrors the feral immigratn law. and so we are in an era where the administration, the highest raing officials within the administration aren't compelled to check the facts before they misform the amerin people. they might cck a left-wing website, butar ecking the facts. and the amen people, who are they going to trust, shouldn't they tru the voicef the president of the united states? who's briefing him. who is telling

secretary napolitano did ask me to conduct revie o this ise, which i'll d engaging all stake holers in t procs. in terms of any bigssues or cisions like that in my leadership experience at the fbi, i tried to do jus that so it's consistent with that perspective of trying to gather as much information as possible and then making an infmed jument or recommendation and so i need more information to do th. my experience with the fbi is such that, of course, we don't have union orollective baaining so i'm attuned to t security/safety issue and from my perspective whatever the discussions are cat adversely affe and safety and security of the tveling public. >> every previous administrator has determined thatollecte bargning is not appropriate for this particular agen. will you consult with former heads of the tsa in your deliberations about what you will recommend? >> i would conside th, senator, as people who are wiinart of the stakeholders in this whole process given their experience and everything viously uld be open to all those who have valuable insights in that regard. >> let me just a

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secretary napolitano is going to go first. we have a tight timeline. when she is done with her remarks, we will go forward. we will have questions. i will be the moderator. i will run a tight ship year there will be no statement and answers. -- i will run a tight ship. there will be no statements and answers. i'm going to introduce secretary napolitano. thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. thank you to the sponsors and hosts. one addition i would make to the program as that, after i sit down, before questions, we will introduce the other panelists who come from the direct hands- on, front-line responsibilities in the areas i am going to speak about. i want to thank john morton and david aguilar, as well as the experts in this area who are here today. thank you. i am happy to welcome robert davis. he is a great community leader in the city of san jose. he is doing some important and novel things with the police department there. the association has been a great partner with the department of homeland secu

most important things that this government has done, the obama administration has done, secretary napolitano has done, is really to start putting resources in interrupting the flow of guns and money into mexico. and i think that is-- that potentially would have more of an effect. >> where is mexican public opinion during all this? there was support initially, i understand, when the president escalated and militarized this war against the drug gangs. now that we're several years into it, where does it stand now? >> there's support and skepticism. i think people still think president calderon for the most part is doing the right thing, it's important to take on organized crime, this is a major issue. but they're skeptical the government has the capacity to do it. he's almost in the position that president obama was last night, where you need to make some sort of jest that you are gains public sympathy if you're going to step out there. one thing president calderon might look at doing is how do you go after some of the public officials that have aided and abetted organized crime or make some so

janet napolitano when she was governor as for that.hey have watched an action by a rancher, who would help people the needed water, get murdered. so when you look at the arizona people waiting patiently for the federal government to act, they cannot sit back and ignore the problem that they are having three baby disperse a great debate and we need to have a debate, but a state cannot sit back when they have the murder capital, they have the right to protect their citizens. it is only enforcing the laws that are already on the federal books, and the federal government will not do their job, we are a nation that has been able to grow by immigration. my family came here from ireland and from england. we have a problem when it comes to immigration. one, the system does not work. you cannot get through it rapidly and honestly. two, we have no border protection for other nations do. and i believe and i think even during the time of the financial america. make that investment? because you believe in the role flop. regardless of who you were,

i was shocked, i said to secretary napolitano yesterday, a letter and i outlined what the information i got, i lead the transportation committee in the house on the republican side, but i said, madam speaker, -- i said, madam secretary, this is unbelievable that no one has i vailed themselveses of the the american flagged vessels who have ready, who have equipment, we should not be engaged in florida or other states in having that oil up on our shores, we had the capability that's not even been utilized today, so this was my letter my plea to the secretary, and i'm shocked and disappointed. the other thing is too, there seems to be a conflict. last night we heard the president say that we have been in charge. he's in charge, as the commander in chief, under the oil spill recovery act that we passed in 1990 after exxon valdez, it's pretty clear the chain of command. but fat allen who is in charge of this, in charge of the spill cleanup, he said that we do not have the capability, the united states government does not have the capability. he said that over and over again , that the priv

i am joined by secretary napolitano. she will make comments.i will give you a quick operations update. secretary of paul lozano will provide updates. as you know, tropical storm alex sirte said it is going over the yucatan peninsula. we're watching closely for any impact it might have on the recovery operation. there appears to be two potential impacts. the discovery enterprise will continue to produce oil for another eight days without a problem. begin. pretty good shape there. and when we did over 5 foot of seas, they will have to stop the preparations for the helix producer, the third production vessel we were born to bring in on the 30 as of june to help to the vertical horizon to increase production of to 53,000 barrels per day by the end of june. we will provide today to date update on up. regarding our production in the last 24 hours, we will able to produce 24,455 barrels in the combination of the discovery enterprise and deatthe q42000. they are beginning the third ranging exercise. that is the exercise where they will work of an elect

i've also directed janet napolitano and thad allen to triple the manpower in those places where oil has hit shore or is within 24 hours of impact. the economic response continues as well. we have ordered bp to pay economic injury claims and we will make sure they deliver. the small business administration has stepped in to help businesses by approving loans and allowing deferrals of existing loan payments. we have stationed doctors and scientists across their region to look out for people's health and monitor any ill effects felt by cleanup workers and residents. and we will absolutely continue to hold bp and any other responsible parties accountable for financial losses borne by the people in the region. but our responsibility does not end there. we have an obligation to investigate what went wrong and to determine what reforms are needed so that we never have to experience a crisis like this again. if the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, though laws must change. if oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws, oversight has to be reformed. if our laws were

it is my colleagues on the cabinet including secretary napolitano who is over -- >> let me -- again, i really respect you. you know that we've had a good friendship. do y'all like tell them on a daily basis what activities to engage in? >> we -- mean that's what i'm taking from this. i'm just -- >> i mean il -- i receive and it was at my order and thad allen's order, a review of bp, what their work streams are all running in parallel because we didn't want them to run sequentially. those are receiveddaily. that's at our direction. i have a personal conversation with andy ingalls whos the head of bp running the operations out of houston to get an update every morning. secretary chu joins me on some of those meetings. when we find deficiencies such as looking at the fact now that we believe they teed to have additionaledundancies in place as you look at hurricane season before you get to t ultimate sealing of the well through relief wells we order them to provide -- to provide those additional containment capacities and redundancies, so it's a dynamic relationship but it is a directive

the secretary janet napolitano has turned her back on arizona. she did not even bother to read the bill. host: the editorial in "the new york times" says another bad idea from arizona. it says they are not satisfied with the shameful new law that would demand racial profiling, politicians are pushing for an law that would deny citizenship to babies born in arizona whose parents cannot prove their legal immigrants -- they are legal immigrants. wanda, on the democratic line, from hawaii. good morning. caller: good morning. this man a couple calls back was talking about budgeting. i was watching it on television last night. it's like really lean, the budget. they cannot fill all lot of positions. we live in hawaii. you have seven islands with seven different counties. everybody has their own net money coming -- their own money coming in. the county wanted to see if the stimulus money that was coming out to separate it from the state and give it to the county, because maui has, i would say, honolulu and maui are the grwowing islands. on kuwai, they a

i think secretary napolitano yesterday, in her remarks on the southwest border, talked about an increase cooperation. it is a global international business. host: next phone call for the director is from byron, michigan. lee, independent line, you are on. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. can you hear me? host: yes, we can. caller: i do not hear myself except for talking out loud here. this is not a drug problem that our country has, this is a liberty problem. this is about liberty. we as individuals have the liberty to decide these questions for ourselves, and people do. i am a successful business owner. i have myriad friends with great jobs, with great houses, great family, all successful people. we smoke pot. it is none of your business. you should get out of our lives , and if the police state would get its boot off the neck of that all people in this country who have the liberty to choose to use marijuana if they want to, you would have a spurt of productivity. i want to say one more thing. these laws are enforced against .he vulnerable and the weeak if you happen to li

it is my colleagues on the cabinet including secretary napolitano who is over -- >> let me -- again,ly respect you. you know that. we've had a good friendship. do y'all like tell them on a daily basis what activities to engage in? >> we -- mean that's what i'm taking from this. i'm just -- >> i mean i'll -- i receive and it was at my order and thad allen's order, a review of bp, what their work streams are all running in parallel because we didn't want them to run sequentially. those are receiveddaily. that's at our direction. i have a personal conversation with andy ingal who is the head of bp running the operations out of houston to get an update every morning. secretary chu joins me on some of those meetings. when we find deficiencies such as looking at the fact now that we believe they teed to have additional redundancies in place as you look at hurricane season befo you get to the uimate sealing of the well through relief wells we order them to provide -- to provide those additional containment capacities and redundancies, so it's a dynamic relationship but it is a directive rel

as the assistant secretary for tsa i'm honored b the president's call to service and by sretary napolitano'spport a in addition to exessing appciation to this committee r what you've been through and dng now for this impoant position, i would also like to eress my personal appreciation to those in del, state, local tbal law enforcement and in t u.s. intelligence community tt i've had the privilege of working with these nearly 27 years. and i'd also b remiss if i didn't acknowledge our internatnal partners with whom i've had the privilege ofor because it's without their help we wilbe unable to fully dress the worldwide terrorist threats which may impact the homeland. we know that national security and counterterrosm are familiar territoryor me and during my careerith the fbi, i think it's as provided me the skills and experience necessary toead tsa and address the chalnges of keeping the nation's transportation system secure. r exple, in 1992 worked with the italian authorities inveigating the assassination by t siciln mafia of the two top anti-mav yo judges and what could be described as a s

janet napolitano when she was governor as for that. they haveatched an action by a rancher, who would help people the needed water, get murdered. so when you look at the arizona people waiting patiently for the federal government to act, they cannot sit back and ignore the problem that they are having three baby disperse a great debate and we need to have a debate, but a state cannot sit back when they have the murder capital, they have the right to protect their tizens. it is only enforcing the laws that are already on the federal books, and the federal government will not do their job, we are a nation that has been able to grow by immigration. my family came here from ireland and from england. we have a problem when it comes to immigration. one, the system does not work. you cannot get through it rapidly and honestly. two, we have no border protection for other nations do. and i believe and i think even during the time of the financial america. make that investment? beuse you believe in the role flop. regardless of who you were, the