I thought that the sooner NATO did that, the better because in X amount of years you don't know, with Russia, whether it would be possible.

I would like to ask Chairman King to add gang violence to the discussion of terrorist extremists.

The goal here should be how do we address that suffering through communication, through dialogue, through enlightenment.

I am really concerned that Chairman King has decided to look at the issue of home-grown terrorism through a myopic lens that has directed its focus on one religious community, Muslim-Americans.

I fail to see the objectives of this hearing other than to further stigmatize and ostracize a community from whom we desire cooperation.

Homegrown violent extremism is not the domain of any one group of people in this Nation.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me say that today's hearing has been a great Congressional theater, certainly the equivalent of reality TV.

I really want to discourage us from stigmatizing and ostracizing communities.

Forging strong, positive relationships with the Muslim community is vital to our law enforcement community's ability to combat homegrown terrorism.

I share some of the sentiments that you have heard from my colleagues on this side of the aisle...

I think that, you know, we have got to reorient ourselves if we are going to, in fact, get a handle of this type of activity in our Nation.

I think we should have afforded him that courtesy.

For us to focus in and say Muslim Americans specifically are this threat, when I can also talk about gang radicalization...

I am sharing my opinion as a member of this committee. My opinion is that we have focused almost as a fixation on this one community, when there are many threats to our civil society that have not been examined at all.

I'd like you to comment on what you think we need to do to address that, whether there is sufficient protocols available on an international perspective to address that.

I particularly am working out a bill with Senator Orrin Hatch on that subject, to begin to develop these international protocols for enforcement.

Yes, FEMA has been updating the flood maps. They are placing thousands of Long Island homeowners in high-cost insurance zones.

I have requested an IG investigation to get to the bottom of this.