Tom Carper

In past years, Director Wray has stated that the Bureau views China as one of the greatest threats to our nation due to their counterintelligence and economic espionage interest.

Give me ten thousand bucks. I will take your kid. I guarantee they can get in.

We want them to stay here, actually.

The Department of Homeland Security's Center for Prevention, Programs, and Partnerships aims to expand the Department's ability to prevent terrorism and targeted violence

In 2020, the FBI arrested 180 individuals on domestic terrorism-related matters. Of these arrests, 75 percent were identified as white supremacist extremists.

What do we do now, going forward? There is a lot to do.

I think from the time that Donald Trump--and I am not a real political guy, as my colleagues know--but from the moment he sat down with the Taliban and began a negotiation, cut our presence to 2,500 people, I think the die was well cast.

I am the last Vietnam veteran serving in the U.S. Senate.

Haitians are getting in under Section 8.

I think our challenge is how do we handle the resettlement?

I want to get it right, so we have an orderly, lawful process, so the most generous country in the world, in terms of immigration, can continue to be so, and our citizens can support it.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Madam Chair, I am going to ask that our other two witnesses respond for the record to that same question.

There is important legislation that is pending that would bestow upon individuals evacuated from Afghanistan the same benefits that refugees receive.

It is hard to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if we don't have clean air, clean water, and a safe environment in which to live, to raise our families; tough to have that.

We reported out unanimously infrastructure legislation for water infrastructure, drinking water, wastewater, unanimously out of this Committee.

The Federal Government has responsibilities, I mentioned Lincoln earlier, what it is the role of the government, to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

I think the same is true of climate change. It is something that should unite us, not divide us.

There is a shared responsibility here. The Federal Government has a considerable responsibility, but not the only one.

In enforcement, there is no role for politics. It is about the law and the facts.

If confirmed, how will you seek to ensure that EPA makes cybersecurity a top priority within the agency?

I am privileged, along with Shelley Capito, to lead these work horses, not show horses.

In adversity lies opportunity, and those words have guided me throughout my life.

There is an app called CISA within Homeland Security. They are in a position to help you, and they help your agency.

We can't regulate our way out of every environmental problem in the United States.

By the end of the last administration, there were fewer than 150 criminal investigators for the entire United States.