I really question why that didn't become a major disaster, and perhaps you can come to my office and we can talk more about it.

Just one observation on the sheltering.

I think certainly as far as the 100 percent requirement, it needs to be thoughtfully reconsidered.

We have got to make sure that activities which are illegal in their country, having guns--that is illegal in Mexico; you have no fourth amendment right to commit a crime in Mexico by selling weapons to people that are taking them into…

I am also a big supporter of Mr. Rogers' MITOC project. It was a smart thing to do.

But, look, my communities here or out there, they are already calling me and saying, how do we get to the broadband money?

But where there is an underserved area and there has been proven emergencies that no one can respond to, whose job is it to pick up the pieces and try to fix it?

This is a Federal fire in a Federal forest.

I think we put a lot of emphasis on knowing that Canada is secure, and therefore, we don't have to worry about Canada and we have to worry about Mexico.

Congress has just appropriated $7.2 billion for broadband for rural areas.

I think we have a little interoperability problem developing at the Federal level.

The big problem in every one of those fires, is communication. And yet, nothing has been done about it.