By consistently failing to meaningfully engage women in combating terrorism and extremism, we are failing to not only address part of the problem but we are failing to pursue a whole new range of solutions.

When we think about radicalization and terrorism, there are always warning signs.

I think there's a lot we need to do.

We do not have a global ambassador for women's issues, which is a serious lack on our part.

Thanks to them, we finally started to move in the right direction. Congress passed the Women, Peace, and Security Act last fall, which will require a strategy be in place to promote the participation of women in U.S. foreign policy.

Far too often, women don't know or trust who they can go to with that information or, worse yet, when some of them brought their concerns to law enforcement, they are ignored.

Our mission is to be most effective and efficient in keeping Americans and our allies safe from terrorism and to have this exclusion continue or not to maximize this important resource is unacceptable.

Just quickly, I just offer you all the opportunity... if you could feel free to contact us in the future.

Civil society, the rule of law, and the focus of our hearing this afternoon--women--are integral to our success in countering the terrorist threats we face today.

Despite many successes, we often feel like we are playing a rigged game of Whac-A-Mole.

The NRC alone being able to do that without the input of our intelligence agencies makes no sense whatsoever.

It is important to have actual members of the Trump administration here.