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. >> ranking member thompson, ranking member sheila jackson lee, i am pleased to be here with colleagues from cbp to discuss the rights to the homeland for foreign fight is traveling to syria to participate in the conflict and will we are doing to mitigate the threats. you correctly stated the ongoing conflict in syria emerged at an unprecedented offer at thousand 4 and fighters including europeans and u.s. persons, to join the fight there. these individuals radicalized and newly acquired skills to carry out attacks. we have seen an example of this in europe where in may at french national fought alongside the islamic state in syria. a jewish museum in brussels, killing four people. we currently have no credible information to indicate the islamic state isis is planning to attack the homeland but we remain concerned access to westerners and safe havens in the middle east will allow them to plan and coordinate attacks in the u.s.. more broadly, veteran al qaeda at fighters travel to syria to pakistan, permissive operating environment. and u.s. persons, we are concerned syria could emerge

the gentlelady from texas, miss sheila jackson lee. >> mr.hairman, thank you very much for your courtesy, and the ranking member, mr. cummings. thank you for acknowledging that homeland security and this committee have worked together on a number of issues. before i start i want to put into the record by reading it the words expressed by mr. obama, our president, just last as, madam director, you made it very clear that the general assembly you protected not only the president, but 140 heads of state. and the president said, the secret service does a great job. i'm grateful for all of the sacrifices they make on my behalf and all my family's behalf. i wanted to just add that, because the president has confidence. i also want to it knowledge that your storied history equates to thethe storied history of secret service starting in 1865. that it has continued in that service. our hope with this hearing, as my colleagues have said, between the publicans and democrats, that we would alter this headline that i hold up that says "the secret service

consume to the gentlelady from texas and author of this legislation, represent -- representative sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: let me thank and thank you very much to both mr. collins and mr. davis. thank you, mr. speaker, for yielding me this time. it was really good to hear the initial description of congressman mickey leland. he loved being called mickey leland although his name was george thomas, mickey was what he went by because he was a person of the people. today i stand here and support h.r. 78, designating the facility of the united states stal service located at 4110 lmeda road, in houston, texas, as the george thomas "mickey" leland post office building. i want to thank the house oversight and government reform in helping bring this to the floor of the house. it is appropriate to have it this year. this is the 25th year commemoration of mickey's death along with 15 other brave individuals who were flying to provide a lifesaving commodity for those who are starving and dying. this bill will acknowledge this 25th yea

candace miller of michigan, the chairman and the ranking member is sheila jackson lee who came into theroom moments ago. should get under way momentarily, looking at the potential domestic threat posed by the islamic militant group isis. >> the committee on homeland security, the subcommittee on border and maritime are security will come to order. su today to examine the threat posed by isis foreign fighters anniversary of the most heinous and cowardly attack of our nation that took the lives of nearly 3,000 of our fellow americans. it happened in part because our visa security and border security defenses were not very effective. among the most important weaknesses that the attackers were able to exploit was our porous outer ring of border security. in total the 19 hijackers passed through the u.s. border security 68 times back and forth without being detected. and on that day in september we learned a very hard lesson. as noted by the 9/11 commission, i quote, for terrorists, travel documents are as important as weapons, unquote. i think that's a very, very important statement by them