Don't you have to basically take the Iranian threat as real, as dangerous to this country?

As long as this oil continues to pour into the Gulf we have a real and unprecedented disaster.

I traveled to Alabama and witnessed firsthand the destruction caused by this catastrophe.

While our hearing today is intended to cover the HUD budget for the next fiscal year, I would like to begin by highlighting the fact that the budget does not--does not, Mr. Secretary, as you know--address the future of the GSEs, Fannie Mae…

What more vile crime in the world than to do harm to children.

I have got to go to an appropriations hearing to deal with the FBI in a few minutes and I wondered if I could ask that my questions of the Secretary be included in the record.

The White House does not appear to believe the assessment of its own Department of Homeland Security.

We have had hearings on that in the Banking Committee, and are working with the FBI and the Justice Department on that.

the administration's proposed rescission of $98 million in funding for the construction of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center is troubling

We want to protect ourselves against organized crime, and there is a budget request of $116 million for dismantling organized criminal syndicates.

Counterterrorism alone makes up now 40 percent of the FBI's budget.

But it is a sordid problem, is it not? And it is billions of dollars involved worldwide, is it not?