My goal is to produce a bipartisan, fiscally responsible Homeland Security appropriations bill for 2013.

I think that makes a lot of sense.

We stand with him in supporting the disaster victims, the volunteers, and the first responders.

I commend you for your continued leadership.

Thank you, and we will reconvene in a couple of weeks on another subject.

Because our job will not have been done well.

we included $77 million above the request for the Coast Guard.

I am not going to spend the next 5 years, 6 years, or 10 years, as long as I am here, nibbling around the margins.

Our subcommittee is interested in helping you build the Coast Guard we need for the country.

We have already made it clear that the need is there. The budget, as we have been budgeting, is not going to meet that need.

I am going to help you fix that, and I am going to put language in my bill to make sure that when you sell surplus property, you get to keep the proceeds to invest back into your housing.

Aren't they amazing?

The challenge for leaders in this town is we are consumed by people whose vision only goes from year-to-year.

I have gone on record saying that I think the Coast Guard needs closer to $2 billion per year to recapitalize, do proper recapitalization.

I was there in April with others to commission the first fast response cutter, the Bernard C. Webber.

We need some more funding in our society, in our budget, and that is where the problem is.

It's like deja vu, all over again.

Every year, Presidents submit budgets that are inadequate for the Coast Guard, and every year, Congress steps in to fortify them.