"If the funding were available, would you be prepared to start--with the design work having been done, as I hear your testimony, would you be prepared to start in building such a decontamination facility in the District of Columbia?"
"One of the things I am most interested in, Ms. Mathes, is whether, in the event of an evacuation, absent some kind of event with gases so noxious that they were being released all over the District of..."
"the leadership of the House and the Senate are trying earnestly to discover at this point whether there is any effect on homeland security"
"To me, section 210... it doesn't make sense."
"I wanted to dedicate today's hearing to Loree Murray."
"How would you handle bus travel? Do bus drivers assume any responsibility--they are not law enforcement officers--for people carrying weapons?"
"Is there a disability coordinator in this region and, to your knowledge, in other regions?"
"I am told that the Stafford Act provides funding for nonprofits. Isn't that ridiculous?"
"I regard it as an unplanned event. Sure, there was planning, and, sure, most of the planning worked."
"It looks like between now and a fully interoperable system we are into jerry-built systems, at some considerable risk, I take it, to homeland security."
"I was very adamant, as was the Council and the Mayor, in saying, now, look, we accept what the Supreme Court has done."