We believe it is extremely cost effective and it is helping us train our first responders.

I was pleased to see increases for the State Homeland Security Grant Program, Urban Area Security Initiative, and FEMA management and operations.

Your Department really stepped up with the Department of State to help process about 900 adoptions.

The Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) will provide the Coast Guard with a new generation of patrol boats.

I want to communicate how many local elected officials have said, you know, they may not rule for us, but please tell the Secretary at least we are getting our day in court to be able to get a decision.

Without this chairman, I am not sure where we would be.

The FRC project is critical to replacing the Coast Guard's fleet of 110-foot Island Class patrol boats.

We believe, because of your quick work with Secretary Clinton, that all of those adoptions will be processed within the next 30 days.

The fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Department will bolster emergency preparedness and support disaster recovery.

Are you confident that the money that is in the President's budget request, which is I think $1.95 billion for fiscal year 2011, and the additional $5.1 billion in supplemental will cover the outstanding or anticipated request from not…

It is extremely cost effective and it is helping us train our first responders actually in the communities where they live.

I would just suggest, Mr. Chairman, the members of our subcommittee, that as we look out into the reconstruction of Haiti, that helping the Haitian Government and working with international partners, I understand Canada and France want to…

Just because people can't appreciate that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not the right thing.

This agency should operate in the most transparent, accountable way possible.

If you just took 50 percent of the estimated orphans, that would be roughly 70 million children.

I think it's just critical, which brings me to my questions about Haiti.

I specifically appreciate your partnership with Secretary Gates to marry the hard power of our military with the smart power of our diplomacy over the long run.

Thank you for always putting women in the forefront of this debate because, as you know, women can be the drivers of economic growth and social stability around the world.