Just having the regulations put in place, having something made mandatory is not necessarily in itself going to make our food supply safe.

I just wanted to remind the Chairman that we already had regulatory controls in place that just were not followed in that case.

We have to get the regulatory burden off of the producers so that they can make a living and continue to produce the foods that we need in this country.

We intended to fight to the last man, and they didn't.

I as well as, I think, everybody on this committee are very concerned about homegrown terrorists.

We know that information sharing is a vital part of preventing the next terrorist attack.

I remain concerned with several aspects of both pieces of legislation before us today.

I think this committee ought to be setting policy, and not the White House frankly; and the Department of Homeland Security I think is the best way to try to coordinate things.

I believe in the private sector, I believe in the marketplace, and I think innovation and development comes probably best in the private sector and not from governmental sources.

I am disappointed that we haven't been more aggressive in our last administration, and I don't know what kind of aggressiveness we are going to have in this administration to try to solve this problem.

I am looking forward to working with you and the Department on a number of these issues, including counterintelligence, radicalization, cybersecurity, securing our borders.

Government does nothing more fundamental than protecting its citizens, and I couldn't agree with you more on that.

DHS is not going to be a respected member of the intelligence community unless it takes counterintelligence seriously.

I encourage you to be very aggressive in this endeavor.

We need to have a very strong not only intelligence community within the Department but a very aggressive counterintelligence community.

We have done a lot to prevent terrorist attacks and protect our homeland, but we are still vulnerable to home grown radicalization and violent Islamic extremism.

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