I would urge that this happen--that the National Intelligence Program be taken out of the Defense Department and added to the DNI's budget.

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.

Should we be admitting 50,000 people over here to our country?

I hope that particularly since 9/11 people within the intelligence community understand that they can come under great public, including congressional, criticism if in a look back it appears that one or another part of the community...was…

We are far safer than we were on September 10, 2001.

Ultimately, the people in Tunisia and Egypt, and hopefully in Libya soon, will determine their own destiny.

What is happening now I think is a profound repudiation of the ideology of Islamist extremism.

The premise we have been operating on--part of why we are doing this series of hearings--is to see if we can agree on a common ground on what we are striving for in terms of border security.

My hope: That if we reached the level of finding out what is not working in border security and could fix it, that we would not only have achieved that good result, but it would be a preface to going back and considering reform of our…

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.

we have to have leadership, and I think some of that leadership is from people that are accountable to the President

As I look back to Hurricane Katrina, to make a long and complicated story too short, first off, we had an extraordinary natural disaster event.

under Northern Command, which is a command of our military which has responsibility now for Homeland Security, we have these two units, 4,500 people in each one, one active duty, one reserve, that are specially trained to respond to events…

I hope that the money we put into collecting these funds back are cost-effective.

I hope people who are listening find it reassuring.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, again I conclude, we are better prepared for a catastrophe than we have ever been.

So I presume that, just trying to be helpful, that people, including on the West Coast, should not yet be taking potassium iodine pills as a preventive of any kind because right now there is no risk, and there is some slight risk of side…

We have developed extra capacities that FEMA can bring to bear.

As I understand it, we have more than 100 existing monitors along the West Coast----

But we have to be careful calling some of these mis-classifications fraud when they really are not in my definition of fraud.

I join Senator Jeff Sessions and others in clamping down, raising the fines, increasing the penalties for people that would try to game the system.

We live in a world with a lot of risks.

This is really a superb appointment. I endorse Dan's nomination wholeheartedly.

The Czech Republic has been an extraordinary partner and ally of the United States, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the promotion of democracy worldwide.

For more than 2 years before Ambassador Eisen arrived in Prague, the United States had no Ambassador in the Czech Republic, which spurred doubts and fears among our Czech allies--and as you said, they have really been great allies--about…