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One of the reasons I was so pushy about this with Secretary Jewell was I think we are leaving money on the table...

I think Senator Lamar Alexander raises a really serious question about how we make it accessible and engaging...

I just want to make a point of how excited I am about the pass program.

They are the face of the parks, and they are wonderful.

Do you feel that we are adequately protected now, in terms of a potential cyberattack on our grid?

I will execute the budget as executed by Congress.

Even Congress cannot repeal that law.

I consider cyber, probably, one of our greatest national vulnerabilities.

It was a lot of those same issues, is the fact that they were overhauling the entire Medicaid program without a significant number of hearings or a deep look into why they were actually doing it.

Senators Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, Bob Casey, and Susan Collins have introduced the Protecting Seniors During Disasters Act.

We should take that motto to heart, and from this hearing today I can see the huge amount of progress that has been made since I conducted that investigation so many years ago into the very inconsistent and in some ways failed response to…

Older adults matter.

Today, even as we meet, yet another hurricane, Maria, is battering a region still struggling to recover, and it is expected to hit Puerto Rico particularly hard.

I want to close my remarks by also warning the residents who have been affected by these storms of the many scams that have already arisen.

As the then Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, along with Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, I led a bipartisan investigation into the response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal, state, and local levels.

We had done much better planning. In fact, our hospitals had returned to normal functioning.

We have expanded our efforts to improve emergency preparedness and response across the entire country, and we have emphasized the protection of the most vulnerable.

You shouldn't be exchanging business cards during a disaster.