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.

This heinous, cowardly act was terrorism, plain and simple.

In February, a former Coast Guard lieutenant was indicted after stockpiling weapons and drugs and planning attacks targeting prominent Democratic politicians, including a Member of this committee, Ms. Jackson Lee.

For those of you in the hearing room, what you see on the monitor screens are the images and headlines of the domestic terrorist attacks that have torn through our Nation while the Republicans were in charge of this committee and the House…

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.

I urge you to do so without further delay.

Today is a new day and this committee's silence on domestic terrorism now ends because in recent years we have seen a dramatic and disturbing rise in domestic terrorism.

Last year, nearly all extremism-related murders in the United States were committed by right-wing domestic terrorists.

Today is a new day--and this committee's silence on domestic terrorism ends now.

Failure to act as innocent people continue to be terrorized, harmed, and killed by domestic terrorists puts American lives in peril.

We should not be asking our State and local partners to do more with less.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration again proposed significant cuts to these programs. This is unacceptable.

I am very concerned about the impact these statements have on employee morale.

I hope we can come together to enact a meaningful authorization bill that unifies the Department.

No one should blame the men and women of DHS for problems Congress has allowed to fester.

Put simply, since taking office President Trump has decimated the leadership ranks of his own Department of Homeland Security.

For the last 20 years after the end of the cold war the United States drew down its forces in Europe, and many European countries allowed their militaries to decline.

I concur with your thoughts and I think maybe a year or 24 months allow Congress to really look at this and come up with some common sense reforms that protect the homeowner but also protect the taxpayer.