Bennie Thompson actually said...

"As a Ranking Member of the authorizing committee for the Department of Homeland Security, I urge my colleagues to take a serious look at this effort to authorize a consolidation of needed Homeland Sec..."

"Everyone agrees that we should spend our homeland security dollars where they are needed most in an efficient and effective manner."

"The NPGP proposal moves away from the current regional governance, assessment, and strategy-based approach to a competitive and individual project based approach."

"We do not believe that a decade's worth of work in building the regional governance and collaboration structures of these programs should be discarded."