We have the longest coast, actually, of all the four coasts.

The Northern Border receives about two-thirds of the truck traffic, about 85 percent of the trains.

The issues that the Chairman has identified, are both the security issue as well as trying to move trade.

We, who are on the Northern Border, are particularly very keenly interested in this subject.

That is a good summary, because in World War II, a lot of information from the private sector was considered secret, classified, shared with the government with the understanding that it would not be available.

Thank you for these series of hearings that you are holding that are really a comprehensive series.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I am going to be very shameless in pushing my bill.

That is exactly the point of my bill. It says you can share this information and it will stay secure within the government.

This has happened. Someone got into the computer system at a dam and was in a position to control whether or not the floodgates would be opened or closed.

I am sending a letter to Governor Ridge. I have great respect for Governor Ridge.

I want you to know that in that letter, I am asking him to take as much charge of Homeland Security as Rumsfeld has done for Defense.

We need a battle plan in which we manage the incident and we manage the fear around the incident.

This is unacceptable.

I think we have some very challenging and interesting areas under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee of VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies of the Appropriations Committee.

I hope that you will have the opportunity or some of your colleagues will have the opportunity to present these concerns to our Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge.

We were happy to lend you briefly the Lombardi Trophy, but it is coming back to St. Louis.

We have raised the concern, and Senator Mikulski has long called for greater coordination, the development of doctrine on how we can utilize all of our resources.

I think because of this, we really need to listen to you on this war that we are fighting now because the battlefronts on domestic terrorism are going to be in your cities.