"Can you talk for a minute about your views or understanding of what these mitigation grants might be used for?"
"Our budget is below last year's budget."
"Our budget is what stands between communities either rebuilding or not."
"My office, along with many of my colleagues, has heard from many of the 5.5 million working, middle-class families facing skyrocketing flood insurance rate increases."
"As a Senator from Louisiana, I did not want Hurricane Katrina to hit."
"I noted in the President's budget the $400 million in Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grants was included not as a part of the base budget because of restrictions, but as part of the aspirational budget."
"We will be almost 6 percent below where we were last year without some important priorities like Coast Guard recapitalization."
"You know that only 60 percent of the people in our country that should be compliant with flood insurance are currently compliant."
"This is a priority to deal with cybercrime that is being committed to try to reduce it."
"Over the past 6 months, they have grown by 72 percent compared to the same time in 2013, and again, one of the increases that is troubling is unaccompanied children."
"I think it is important for the record that 65 percent of all the border juvenile apprehensions... are under the age of 16."