I don't get the sense for 1 minute that any of you are not sensitive to what we are talking about today.

Your leadership in this critical government function has brought us full circle.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Admiral, your 2013 budget proposal would close two seasonal air stations, in Muskegon, Michigan, and Waukegan, Illinois.

Hopefully with the new disaster funding mechanism Congress passed as part of the Budget Control Act, we will now have more long-term stability to fund critical disaster relief needs.

The work that the Federal Emergency Management Agency does is critical to helping our country prepare for, mitigate against, and recover from disasters.

I, too, want to begin this morning by expressing my sympathy, the good wishes of this Subcommittee and the Nation to the Coast Guard and its families for the tragedy suffered last week in Mobile Bay.

I just want to make sure we are clear on how that is unfolding and what kind of timeline you are working with here.

That seems like a long time. Why will it take this long?

Prescription drug diversion is an ever-growing problem in our country.

It is unconscionable that since 1990, the deaths resulting from an overdose of prescription drugs have risen.

The regulation of medicine is done at the state level. It is not done at the Federal level, and we have to provide the training, the technical assistance, the start-up money for the computer systems, and the assistance to law enforcement.

I think we are on the right path with this with what I believe is a very balanced way and a very comprehensive way of looking at this.

The further down the supply chain a particular drug travels the greater are the opportunities for diversion.

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