Thank you for bringing these facts and figures to our attention. It occurs to me that we need to give this our best consideration.
I think we have an obligation to look carefully into the suggestions of service connection between the events in their military deployment a...
Let us focus on eliminating known security gaps. We are not endangered by people who are already locked up.
It seems that the rulemaking should be different than the rulemaking with regard to the construction of toys or a new way of looking at labo...
This year, we will mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. That event changed our Nation, and in the proces...
In the wake of 9/11, the Coast Guard's homeland security missions have become more important than ever.
I'm glad to be joining you in that position on the Subcommittee.
Somebody must be doing something right in the fact that we've not had these incidents I mentioned as in the other four locations.
Both urban areas maintain a common bond in understanding the need to ensure constant readiness for man-made and natural disasters.
It is vitally important that we provide them with the support they need.
The terrorist threat is at its highest level since 9/11 according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Thank you Chairman Bilirakis for convening this important hearing on the frontlines of hurricane response.
This is not the time to cut back on homeland security.
My proposal, which we are calling the COASTAL Act, would not add wind to the Flood Control Program.
We share Senator Wicker's goal of ensuring timely and fair claims payments to victims of natural disasters.
This is the approach that Senator Wicker's bill takes and it is one I believe that the Committee should take care to continue and to clarify...
I believe that a Standardized Loss Allocation model as Senator Wicker's COASTAL Act envisions is such a solution.
That is not the way the Flood Insurance Program works, and I am mystified as to why banks and NFIP do not work together to enforce this requ...