What I want to make sure is that whatever we do, we are really recognizing the importance of local government in charge ...
It is going to be hard for us to hire people at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Congress has a responsibility to make sure the next generation of Coast Guard and Customs men and women serving on the f...
one of the reasons we are not able to get a full extension is over this issue, and the other thing that is in that bill ...
We need that bill, and we need an approach that requires the core critical infrastructure of this country to unanimously...
Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.
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 stand with him in supporting the disaster victims, the volunteers, and the first responders.
I think that makes a lot of sense.
My goal is to produce a bipartisan, fiscally responsible Homeland Security appropriations bill for 2013.
you can't put a price on a human life, and nothing is more important than keeping our communities, our families, and our...
We might need to think about that because this budget is running into very significant barriers when it comes to the Coa...
We have already made it clear that the need is there. The budget, as we have been budgeting, is not going to meet that n...
