Susan Collins actually said...

"First, let me thank you for holding today's hearing to review the first 8 years of the Department of Homeland Security, whose vital mission is to protect our Nation and our people."

"What is being done to improve coordination between DHS and HHS in this area..."

"For reasons that are not clear to me yet--and we have to talk to him and his staff--that is $4 billion less than the Rockefeller-Hutchison bill and Senator McCain and my bill."

"It is disappointing to me, therefore, that the President in his budget chose to terminate the funding for the Interoperability Emergency Communications Grant program."