Susan Collins

This should be a national priority because this source can produce clean, renewable energy for major U.S. population centers.

This legislation requires the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program of research, development, demonstration and commercial application to advance offshore wind turbine technology.

I am concerned, however, that she appears to lack experience working with State and local law enforcement.

Recent events serve to remind us that the threat of terrorist attacks no longer comes only from countries half a world away, but also from within our borders.

I&A has significant human capital issues. It has a very lengthy hiring process that often discourages highly qualified applicants.

Detecting and responding to this threat does not fall to the FBI alone. An effective response requires a coordinated effort backed by the support of the hundreds of thousands of State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers on the…

Do you believe that the Department, and I&A in particular, has now adopted a sufficient process to help ensure the quality of future reports and prevent poorly sourced and poorly written reports such as this one from being released in the…

I believe that communicating clear mission guidance, implementing fair and transparent processes for hiring, promoting, and rewarding people, and developing a structured and inclusive process for building the budget will go a long way…

I look forward to discussing these and other issues with Ms. Wagner today.

The nomination of Caryn Wagner to serve as the next Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis... comes at a time when our understanding of threats to our security is rapidly evolving.

Are you optimistic about securing full cooperation from the Gulf countries?

It may in fact be a helpful signal because it shows that we're not like the Soviets, that we're not trying to stay there and impose our way of life on them.

I think those are very wise lessons indeed.

I think it can lead to success if we implement it the way we should.

I think that the impetus that the President's decision is giving us will change the reality on the ground.

Can this work, despite everybody's best efforts?

I think that Afghanistan has a unique place in the historical narrative of these extremists that makes it especially important to us.

We hope that one of the results of our investigation will be a new pamphlet on extremist activities that incorporates the lessons of this case.

I am concerned, however, by reports that our Federal law enforcement and counterintelligence agents may have backed off from further inquiries into Major Hasan's activities based on concerns about his First Amendment rights.

Leaderless resistance is ultimately a strategy of weakness.

The prohibited activities that are listed in this manual are all geared toward organized activities.

The stresses are showing up in the form of breakdowns, suicides, sometimes homicides.

Was this another failure to connect the dots?

But we do no favor to all of our fellow Americans who are Muslim by ignoring real evidence that a small number of their community have, in fact, become violent Islamists and extremists.

Domestic intelligence collection remains a necessary and critical component of homeland security.