I would like to just take a moment to thank the women and men of the FBI for their hard work.

If the President fired the special counsel without satisfying any of the requirements that currently are in DOJ regulations, without doing it for cause, but only because he was concerned about the special counsel getting too close to him, or his closest advisors, or his family--I think the answer to that is clear to anyone who is watching today, and that is exactly why, at this moment, Mr. Chairman, we have to protect the special counsel.

You may delegate authority, but you may not delegate responsibility.

I share the outrage that Mr. Walz has expressed.

I do agree, Congressman, that any inappropriate use of the FISA process for political purposes is something that we should all be very concerned about and take very seriously.

Would it have been inappropriate of President Kennedy ordered Director Hoover to stop surveilling Martin Luther King Jr., in say 1962, if he believed that surveillance was illegitimate?

I think you are walking into a contempt of Congress.

Private sector research and development continues to outpace military investments in space.

this country has lost the ability to 'go fast'.

I think it important this Committee understands how toxic Superfund sites are impacted by these disasters.

I am hopeful that today's hearing will provide suggestions for improvement to disaster planning and post-disaster response.

We will be looking at how to incorporate steps to protect those Superfund sites from changes that might occur as we can identify they are in an area where there is a fire hazard or a hazard from sea level rise.

We need to address the issues of waste management effectively.

Our job is to protect people, and frankly, we are failing.

It is helpful to have a Federal Government we can work with on climate issues just generally.

We must and we can do better.

That is just wrong. When you are a kid, you should be having fun, not worrying about cancer causing toxins.

Climate change, as I think you would agree, acts as a force multiplier in extreme weather conditions.