Ms. Jackson Lee.

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...

I might edit it and say private and public sector, and that is what we hope the testimony will present us with this afternoon.

I sincerely hope that we can learn from the tragic event and apply its lessons to what we are doing to secure the same types of assets in the United States that were targeted in India.

I was troubled to hear that information about mitigation measures was not posted on the Homeland Security Information Network for nearly a week following the Mumbai attack.

Planning is extremely important.

I think the Chairwoman deserves tremendous credit for taking an international issue and showing why it is such...

This is not necessarily a hearing only on Mumbai. It is asking the serious question of, how do we protect the Nation's infrastructure.

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.

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

do you feel that our mechanism, DHS, FBI, and others, are moving toward understanding the potential for commando-type activities on the soil of the United States?

I can assure you being on this committee, help is on the way.