Joe Lieberman

I do not think it can be denied that the border is in better shape today than it was previously.

We assume that most of the illegal immigrants are coming in illegally.

I think the system is working as we would want it to.

I do not know about this one incident you talked about across from Douglas, Senator McCain.

The common perception is that the undocumented immigrants are all coming in illegally, mostly, in the common view, across the Southwest Border.

It is very important that illegal immigrants are counted in our census.

I appreciate her holding the gavel and bringing the hearing to order.

But the reality is that if we were attacked by one of those nine other biological agents, we do not really have medical countermeasures for those now, do we?

I would urge all Members of Congress to get a classified briefing on the biothreat from the intelligence community.

That ought to get our attention, and some of those--am I right?--are not that complicated to make, to bring together.

President Obama implicitly acknowledged this last month when he called for an international effort in the surveillance and management of infectious disease, whatever the origin of the plague.

The biothreat is real, as Dr. Majidi said. We know our adversaries are pursuing biological weapons.

But when you tell us and the American people that an average of four or five weapons are found every day at airports around the country, it reminds us why.

But the natural place that a citizen who sees something and wants to say something will call is the local police department.

This should force us to make priority judgments, and by any number of standards this is a priority for us.

The requirement to share information has been around since time immemorial

We both felt that this was a case where the balance of public interest and safety was in putting this information out, not everything, but that there had been a specific, credible, unconfirmed threat.

This is a journey without a destination point. In other words, we are just going to have to keep getting better and better and better as time goes on.

I want to include, without objection, in the record, in which he discusses the importance of allocating the D-block to first responders, and I agree with him totally.

I cannot stress enough, and I know I speak for Senator Collins, your people are finding four to five weapons every day.

The bill that we put in encouraging the See Something, Say Something approach, which is really an important idea

I promise you that we will take this on in the Committee as another kind of oversight responsibility

As I look at the overall statistics, DHS interviewed more than 101,000 Iraqi refugee applicants and approved more than 84,000 for resettlement in this country.

9/11/01 could have been prevented and should have been prevented and that if it was tried today, it would be prevented.

When Chairman Lieberman and I authored the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, our goal was to create a strong leader to coordinate the 17 separate agencies of the intelligence community and to change their culture…