It will be necessary for this subcommittee to continue to do all we can to help DHS develop a workable National cyber protection strategy and framework for critical infrastructure entities and small and large businesses in order to protect…

The Department of Homeland Security plays a fundamental role in the National effort to increase our collective cybersecurity.

It appears that we just have an inability to get it done.

It is the National interest to safeguard such critical infrastructure and to make sure that there are adequate protections from cyber and information and data interruptions.

Well, and let's move on to, I guess, what your ultimate goal is when you say the National security interests, which is why you now have implemented waivers, or planning to, because of our partners.

John Conyers is also asking for us to vote on voting rights. I don't hear anyone quoting him or moving to do that.

Did we have any conversations about taking that waiver provision out of law, or striking that, so that the Secretary would not have the authority to waive on a case-by-case basis?

I think that we are on a very slippery slope, in terms of how far we go.

I want to thank the gentlelady and scholar for yielding to me and putting on this series tonight. Mr. Speaker, just a few weeks ago, on January 12, right here in this Chamber, President Obama proudly declared to the citizens of the United…

I just want to take a second to recognize a civil rights hero and New Orleans native who recently passed away: Julia Aaron Humbles. An active participant in the civil rights movement from an early age, she was selected to be on the first…

police are not the answer to a school discipline problem.

we are sacrificing city services that would keep people from having to deal with the police or the sheriff's department.

we're having to raise taxes and we're having to cut services such as youth recreation and other things that would keep kids out of trouble in the first place.

I really would like the Department to do something on that as we talk about criminal justice reform and move forward.

to stress the importance of the COPS program and additional funding for community policing and other initiatives that would help.

can you all help to provide resources so that we can, one, comply with the consent decree, but two, not lose critical services for our youth and our public to keep them safe at the same time?

Let me just start off where Maxine left off. We talk about economic development and all those things...

So we just have to make sure that the spirit of the law and the goals are what we reach...

I stood with several local officials and advocates to call for the one-for-one replacement of every unit demolished in the City's public housing developments.

Let me just publicly thank the ranking member of the full committee, Maxine Waters, for her assistance.

I want to thank you for that commitment and working with the ranking member of the subcommittee...

Mr. Chairman, let me just thank you for taking the time to come down to New Orleans and have a subcommittee hearing.

We want to make sure that opportunities are afforded to people who benefit from public housing.

As we move forward, there must be some sort of serious discussion as far as how we increase our inventory for those affordable units.

We worked together to reform Biggert-Waters to make sure that our flood insurance remained reasonable.