Mark Pryor actually said...

"The reason I was asking is we talked a minute ago, one of the witnesses talked about sort of a phased leaving of the city or coming into the city or whatever effort during or after an event."

"We also need to keep our eye on the larger ball of preparedness around the Nation."

"This area is absolutely critical to keeping things going around the country and around the world as we need them to."

"Washington, D.C. has gone through some recent weather events and other things and we see continued gridlock in communications."