All we are asking for is fair and equal treatment.

Having spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur myself with a small business and sold that off to my second-generation oldest son, I looked at this proposal that is here.

What my amendment does is it establishes--we will have an online education Web site that is part of this--but my amendment establishes an online Web site for use by potential and existing entrepreneurs to facilitate peer-to-peer technical…

I have been calling for Congress to authorize $100 million to prevent the southbound trafficking of cash and guns.

We in California have just started the wildfire season and it can have devastating effects on our communities.

I believe that the combination of the first report and then the second report... certainly demonstrate we believe a weakness in the Department which has to be addressed.

I just see this as being such a real threat to our cities.

I want to again commend you for reaching out, but again there are some real questions here which have to be addressed.

I promise you, I will try to restrain Congressman Pascrell when he gets going.

I look forward to working with you to ensure that the Department has the resources it needs to execute all its missions, including to prevent and respond to the threat of terrorism.

Rather than lose because of bookkeeping tactics, I would ask if you would be willing to meet with officials involved in New York City Secure the Cities program.

The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children.

I think of all the programs administered by the Department, I don't think any received a higher rating, both being effective, and yet there is going to be a 70 percent cut.

Again, not for the parochial interests of New York, but I just see our cities across the Nation being at threat because of this.

I would appreciate your thoughts on that, especially since, if we look at Europe, generally the attacks come from suburbs into the cities.

I think there should really be a dedicated revenue stream.

There is tremendous concern over this. I am certainly hearing from fire districts.

We look forward to this year working on the Banking Committee.