Martha McSally

August 29 marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the response to which was a failure at all levels of government.

Administrator Fugate, I look forward to hearing how you are working to continue to improve FEMA so it is a nimble organization.

I look forward to hearing from Mr. Currie about GAO's reviews and his suggestions for ways to further improve our Federal response posture.

The storm took more than 1,800 lives, impacted millions of Gulf Coast residents, and cost an estimated $108 billion--the most costly disaster in U.S. history.

I also want to commend you for FEMA's recent work responding to the devastating floods in the Carolinas.

I am skeptical about it, quite frankly, with all the things we have seen the Air Force trying to do to go against the will of this Congress.

I strongly support us developing this capability for national security and our warfighter.

I am one of those pilots that would be at the quote, unquote, 'edge of the envelope'.

I think it is a very good use of taxpayers' money.

I ran the counterterrorism operations at AFRICOM in my last military assignment.

I was proud to be on the task force. Certainly very eye-opening and troubling.

I have been strongly advocating against shutting down the government; strongly advocating for us doing our job and actually passing appropriations bills.

More Americans are going to die. That is what it comes down to.

We have many dead American soldiers because of Iran and what they did in Iraq, what they have done in Lebanon as a state sponsor of terror.

If we continue to work at the speed of Government and bureaucracy... then we are going to continually be behind.

I think the situation is urgent.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Experts suggest that terrorist interest in utilizing chemical agents has increased.

We know that terrorist groups have long strived to employ chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear, or CBRNE, materials in their attacks.

The director of national intelligence testified in February that weapons of mass destruction continue to be a major threat to the security of the United States.

I'm pleased our subcommittees are meeting today to consider the optimal organization of the Department of Homeland Security to meet the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threats that face our Nation.

To save one civilian casualty, but then allow ISIS to murder thousands of people on the ground is absolutely contradictory.

A big concern that I have is the incoherence of a strategy in the region especially vis-a-vis Iran, the elephant in the room.

We need--there needs to be a consistent perception of progress being made.

What is the logic of a policy that restricts the use of air power to avoid the possibility of collateral damage while allowing the certainty of Islamic State crimes against humanity.