It is a budgetary matter.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has continued to be a thorn in the side of the United States because of their failure to halt the expansion of ...
Within the next 5 years, the Secret Service will provide protection through two Presidential election cycles, two Democratic national conven...
In closing, I would be remiss if I did not mention the looming funding crisis at DHS.
the essential funding for the Department of Homeland Security is no place for the majority to showboat against immigration reform that stren...
if we don't have a Department that is funded, a lot of the missions we have talked about here today will suffer.
There is no question that cyber is a clear and present priority as well as a danger for us as American citizens.
So the best way to get on with our challenge is to have a budget so that we know how to plan and implement accordingly.
Building the capacity of the Afghan security forces is a key element of our Afghanistan policy.
I just do not understand why this administration does not understand that if we do what is presently planned to begin in three months from n...
When we use the term dirty carbon pollution, we are talking about nothing other than carbon dioxide.
Without a fully-funded Department of Homeland Security, some of our key methods of identifying terrorists and preventing terrorist travel wi...
we have to have the complement of staff necessary to address all the threats that we come in contact with.
A lot of those reductions have not allowed us to really do effective committee work.
Our biggest challenge is several, Madam Chair. Our enemy is not the enemy we started with.
I just want to hold the line. I don't want our budget reduced from what it has been.
We have to have good staff, we have to conduct good work. We have to have the ability to travel, to do field hearings.
I would like to express my condolences to the family of 26-year-old Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was taken hostage by the Islam...
