FEMA must do its due diligence to ensure that companies selected for advance contracts can meet the contract terms.

Since Hurricanes Katrina exposed gaps in FEMA's disaster contracting practices in 2005, the agency still has not managed to make the necessary adjustments.

Disaster contracting is a central component of disaster preparedness and an issue that I have been following for quite some time.

There is a humanitarian crisis on our Southern Border, and this situation has been unfolding for nearly a year.

The request for $81.7 million for more detention space for migrant families illustrates that the administration refuses to acknowledge or does not care that detention is harmful to children.

The President's fiscal year 2020 budget proposal continues to illustrate that the Trump administration's priorities are skewed, short-sighted, and cruel.

Funding for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations...would be diverted to fund interior immigration enforcement arrests and deportations instead.

Border security is more than building a wall.

We are so blessed in this country to have a government that we say our rights come from a creator, not from government.

I think what I would emphasize in this context is that the trade number has increased but so has engagement in so many other spheres.

I am deeply concerned about the increasing influence of China in the western hemisphere.

The behavior of the Chinese Government and Chinese firms undermine the sovereignty of national security not just of their countries but of the United States and the western hemisphere.

As the American public, as Members of Congress, we often don't give you and the men and women that you work with the credit that you deserve.

Make no mistake about this, with their offer of the Huawei and ZTE technology that we know they have given to the Maduro regime, China is looking to harness and capture despotic, authoritarian regimes.

No matter the motive or ideology behind these heinous attacks, the fact that Americans are being targeted and killed by deadly bombs, within our homeland and in your own backyard, demands attention from this Committee.

I urge the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security to recommit to working with this committee on behalf of the American people.

Unfortunately, it has become clear we cannot count on President Trump for action.

I urge you to do so without further delay.