We are here today to talk about racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists or RMVEs.

The report warned that U.S.-based RMVE actors 'who promote the superiority of the White race' possess the most 'persistent and concerning transnational connections'.

It is time for our treatment of foreign RMVE threats to be consistent with how we treat other foreign terrorist threats.

The January 6 attack will undoubtedly serve as a watershed moment for RMVE actors across the globe.

Please, as there are ways in which we, as Members of Congress, can continue to make sure that we are making broadband available to our rural communities, that we are promoting that economic development, please continue to have an open…

I believe that broadband is a key component in economic development, particularly in rural and remote communities.

I want to renew my invitation to the Administrator to come to Mississippi and see a place called the South Delta, were in 9 of the past 10 years, we have had devastating floods.

High-speed internet is critical, absolutely critical to agriculture, to entrepreneurship, to healthcare, to education.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Let me say before I give my formal talk how happy I am that the 2 ladies from Florida are running the show.

The committee has always prioritized oversight of Homeland Security Grants and I am glad that the subcommittee is starting this Congress with such a critical hearing.

The homeland security grant programs, also commonly referred to as preparedness grants, were created nearly 20 years ago after the September 11 terrorist attacks revealed gaps in our Nation's emergency preparedness.

I am glad that former President Trump's proposed cuts to existing preparedness grants funding failed due to bipartisan opposition from Member of Congress.

This is not something that we can turn a blind eye to, and we must begin to address the root causes.

Can people be safe outside the United States? I understand we may not return them to their country of origin.

Ms. Ries, you are entirely correct; much of the surge we are seeing today is coming from our Northern Triangle countries.

It is simply unconscionable that some would try to bring back the Trump administration's inhumane policy of returning vulnerable children back to the dangerous conditions they fled.

We also do not have to sacrifice border security to treat vulnerable unaccompanied children with basic decency. We can do both.

When there was a surge of families and children at the border in 2018, President Trump tore children from their parents.