Elijah Cummings: “In the Baltimore incident, what they said was, if you have the equipment you need for emergencies, like if there was…”

“In the Baltimore incident, what they said was, if you have the equipment you need for emergencies, like if there was some type of attack on our port or our city, even if that did not happen, just being prepared for it puts us in a position to be able to address issues that would probably have a higher likelihood of taking place. It is not like the equipment sits in a corner waiting for some terrorist to come along. And they also talked about the training that they have been involved in, and said their training was helpful. Again, we hear mayors from all over the country, large and small cities, saying, we want to be prepared, we want to protect our people. We are the ones that have to address our firefighters and our police personnel and those who do emergency work. All they want is to make sure that they have the things that are necessary to do their job.”