"They're prepared for this, " Keating, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told MSNBC.
In Washington, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee was briefed Monday on the situation, a congressional source said.
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Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the White House isn't sharing information.
U.S. Rep. Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said "most likely gun powder" was used in the devices.
Another congressman, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, wrote a letter to ICE Director John Morton demanding accountability.
"We really don't know if it's a foreign or domestic threat, " said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
The TSA's moves toward a risk-based approach to security have the support of Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
King, a Republican who is a former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called for a "top-to-bottom" review of TSA operations at Newark.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told members of the House Homeland Security Committee that the FBI wants to talk to two men about the bombings.
In the meantime, he will advocate for the change Wednesday in a meeting with flight attendants and Thursday at a hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee.
On Friday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-New York, said he had more questions about the agency's internal review after meeting with Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.
"We have stopped many of the terrorist plots and attempts from the past through good intelligence, " Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Friday that information that Tsarnaev had been interviewed by the FBI in the past was disturbing.
One was discovered at a hotel on Boylston Street near the bomb site, and another was found at an undisclosed location, said Keating, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking minority member on the House Homeland Security Committee, complained in a statement that the White House review doesn't recommend giving the director of FEMA greater access to the president during a disaster.
"I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city, " Commissioner Edward Davis said in prepared remarks for the House Homeland Security Committee.
Rep. Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Sullivan provided answers to 50 questions from his panel about the controversy in Cartagena that embarrassed the nearly 150-year-old agency and raised concerns of a possible security breach.
It's unlikely in these days of hardened cockpit doors and other preventative measures that the small folding knives could be used by terrorists to take over a plane, TSA Administrator John Pistole told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee.
"Now TSA can go through the established process, seek input from stakeholders and consult with the (Transportation Security Officer) workforce -- so we can have a sensible security policy with stakeholder buy-in, " the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee said in a statement.
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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-New York, submitted 50 questions to Sullivan, while House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel's ranking Democrat, have 10 questions they wanted answered, including a precise time line of exactly what happened in Cartagena.
This directly contradicts not only Patrick Poole's source but also House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY), who insisted that both prosecutors and FBI agents involved in the case had told him they had "vehement objections" to the "declination to prosecute" memo that came out of Washington.
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Those Members include the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), and the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Sylvestre Reyes (D-Texas).
That news has outraged U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, head of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
And I would hope that as we face a continued threat from terrorism, the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, said the attempted act of terrorism would be the focus of an oversight hearing next month.
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This year in Washington's Union Station, the Center for Security Policy will honor the Congressman from the 3rd District of New York and chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Peter King, as its 2012 Keeper of the Flame.
This week, Asa Hutchinson, under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the House Committee on Government Reform that Mexican cardholders traveling less than 25 miles from the border zone and staying no longer than 72 hours in the United States would not be required to enroll in the monitoring program, called US VISIT.
Susan Collins, ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney of the House Oversight Committee suggested having more female agents could help avoid such scandals.
As the next step in that effort, Bush will convene a meeting Wednesday of a 21-member advisory committee being set up to consult with the White House on homeland security issues.
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