I do not believe that the countries that have people who have perpetrated this... will follow through with this requirement of combating impunity.

I want to know what you plan to do, working with the Members of Congress, to keep us informed in a timely way.

I applaud your willingness to step back and have this committee look at the big picture.

I have full confidence that no matter what ISIL throws at us at home or abroad, our democracy, our values, and our humanity will prevail.

While ISIL is the single greatest terrorist threat to our homeland security and the security of our allies worldwide...

That, of course, has been compromised by the Supreme Court interpretation, and there will be an effort made to give the IRS the ability to regulate again those who are paid preparers.

Cutting off their support, obviously, whether it is the financial supports through oil or whether it is the propaganda machines that they use, all that is critically important.

I think the territorial piece for ISIL recruitment is huge, and I think nothing has had a bigger impact on setting them back, including setting back their recruitment campaigns than battlefield defeat.

the formula there is similar to what we see in Syria.

We are very concerned about the recent warning that was given to Maryland, Virginia, and DC taxpayers, due to the phishing scams.

You indicate that we cannot have any safe havens.

It is my hope today that our witnesses can help us understand what lessons we have learned from our country's long history in countering terrorism...

Then lastly something that America is not good at and that is patience because this is going to take a long time.

One of the challenges in this environment is that we have to use all the resources we have at our disposal.

I just thought that you all really centered in on strategies or what needs to be part of an ongoing strategy, which includes U.S. leadership at the forefront and the ability to get coalition partners to be engaged.

If we have unity and resolve and leadership, we can defeat ISIL.

What happened in Flint was absolutely outrageous.

So if you are talking about how individual communities should pay for that, pretty tough to tell Warwick...

the wolf is already at the door. This is not a hypothetical for us.

Obviously, we are interested in clean, safe drinking water, but there is also an economic impact here.

Unless somebody wants to repeal the law of thermal expansion, the sea level is going to rise.

if you do not make those investments, you are compromising America's security.

I want to welcome both of our witnesses here.

There are two major factors that we can control, and that is how we spend money and how we raise money.

how you deal with the deficit is just as important as the deficit.