The goal of most alternative settings is to provide youth who struggle in mainstream society another opportunity to succeed educationally.

I am especially interested to learn about the specific components that make a high quality alternative educational setting successful.

I am very pleased that we have been joined by our colleagues on the Judiciary Subcommittee and Chairman Scott.

It is often in the rehabilitation and treatment settings that educational services are also provided.

It is vitally important that all of our youth receive a challenging and rewarding educational experience regardless of the setting.

I have tasked the subcommittee staff with looking into DHS coordination efforts with the private sector, very important.

I think, in addition to the analysis it is important to have real-life experiences as well, and I hope that is part of your assessment.

We are grateful to all the witnesses for recognizing their role in that.

Ms. Jackson Lee.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Enough time, if we were unlucky to have a number of terrorist acts, if that was what terrorists intended to do in the United States, and we were not prepared.

I intend to and hope my Ranking Member will join me on encouraging, by way of letter, DHS to move forward on the characterization of the standards.

I want to make sure you are not suggesting that the people of Pakistan are comfortable with terrorist acts and are not making efforts.

We should be talking about terrorism and preparedness, because both of those, coming together, meaning prepared to fight terrorism and being prepared will help to save lives.

I do want to emphasize, since I was physically on-site, using my somewhat non-, both nonscientific and non-law-enforcement eye, the importance of internal preparedness plans for hotels.

Can we say that there is ever too much money invested in security?

We cannot focus too narrowly on any one preventive method.

If we have not gotten a wake-up call over the last series of years, noting the numbers of terrorist acts that have occurred...