Both my boys are Boy Scouts. I used to take our Scout troop, Troop 67 from Wilmington, Delaware, to the Norfolk Naval Station...

This is not the Department of Homeland Security of even 4 or 5 years ago.

Let us inspire some innovative ideas on how we can address some of these challenges.

Hurricane Sandy was about 3 or 4 years ago, but actually there were Bloom boxes that were deployed previously before Hurricane Sandy hit.

I wore a uniform for about 5 years active, another 18 reserve.

I want to credit the men and women at the Department of Homeland Security, including in NPPD and elsewhere, for the hard work they do to ensure our critical infrastructure is secure and resilient.

Obviously, what we are discussing today is of immense importance--it is in Delaware, and I know it is in the other 49 States: the security of our critical infrastructure.

We need to recalibrate humanitarian assistance from being emergency and temporary to recognizing that a whole generation of Syrians will likely grow up in the midst of conflict.

The grinding, brutal nature of the humanitarian crisis in Syria is something that has... unresolved tragedies of the modern era.

I would like to make it a matter of public record that Dr. Kurth is still here.

I think this has been a very productive, well attended, and bipartisan hearing.

He went in, he did exactly what he said he was going to do, and no more.

We are going to maintain our alliances.

This is the most important security challenge we have in Asia.

We need to continue to work with the Europeans on our counterterrorism efforts.

We have got the tools. It is a question of whether we have the political will, with our European allies, to use them.

I believe that the United States should chart a course based on a paradigm that I would refer to as 'selective engagement.'

I could not agree more, I do not think we should have done what we did in Libya.