The record will remain open.

I want to thank Chairman Boxer for her work in keeping the focus on sound science as this debate continues.

Much of the testimony has been informed by the latest, peer-reviewed science and represents a consensus of the scientific community on the nature of the climate system's warming.

Climate change will likely have an impact on our Nation's treasure, the Chesapeake Bay.

The EPA has found that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations pose a threat to human health due to a number of factors including more deaths attributed to heat and the increase in vector-borne diseases.

The choice between security and liberty is a false choice, as nothing is more likely to endanger Americans' liberty than the success of a terrorist attack at home.

If there is not a red flag nationally about a problem that would warrant notifying Montgomery County, but Montgomery County has part of a scenario but not everything, how does it fill in the blanks without having greater access than I…

This Subcommittee will also have to deal with the PATRIOT Act. Several provisions of the PATRIOT Act will expire this year, and Congress will need to consider extending those provisions or modifying them.

I intend for this Subcommittee to play an active role in that regard.

But today we start with what I think to be one of the most important functions of Government, and that is to keep our people safe.

I consider this to be our most important responsibility in making sure that actionable intelligence information is gathered in a way that is made accessible to those who can prevent terrorist activities in our country.

I do not know whether the local law enforcement has enough dots to connect, and they may very well need to access the national data bank in order to get the missing dot that makes the connections.