Political Quotes

“Madam President, last month I came to the floor--in fact, I come to the floor just about every month--to highlight the great work being done by the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security. Last month I focused on the folks who work at FEMA, which is one of 22 agencies that collectively make up the Department of Homeland Security--the newest, youngest Department in the Federal Government. Just a few days before my speech, much of the east coast was inundated, as you may recall, by one of the largest snowstorms we have had in a long time, and on that day FEMA was working around the clock to prepare for and respond to what could have been a much more devastating storm. We were hit hard, but we would have been a lot worse off if not for the preparation and the training FEMA had done in not just the days, weeks, and months, but literally years ahead leading up to the storm in order to make us better prepared. For more than a year now, I have come to the floor and I have focused on a different agency within the Department of Homeland Security. It will take about 2 years to knock them all out, but we are making some progress, and I have done so to highlight the exemplary and important work done by more than some 200,000 people who comprise the Department of Homeland Security. They work around the country, and they work outside our country--in Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe, and all over the place in order to make us safer in this country.…”