I appreciate her partnership and willingness to work together with me on important homeland security priorities.

What should we, as Congress, look to for management issues from the QHSR since there will not be another Bottom-up Review?

unless and until we pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform, our system will remain broken.

I cannot support any grant reform proposal until I am convinced that it would provide the support necessary to maintain terrorism preparedness capabilities.

I urge Members to oppose the administration's proposal to morph the Homeland Security Grant Program into an all-hazards grant.

We cannot ignore the information sharing between Federal, State, and local authorities needs strengthening.

I am concerned that those foundational documents were not completed until nearly 7 years after the BioWatch Gen-3 acquisition process began.

I am pleased that the Department heeded the advice of the GAO and our Members.

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. I also have concerns, Mr. Speaker, about the bill's view of the future of security clearance investigations and adjudications and the degree to which it sets the stage for computers and algorithms to…

This hearing is timed only days after the Department of Justice announced indictments against five Chinese military officials for conducting cyber espionage against U.S. industries related to nuclear power and solar and metal products.

What's important to me is that in this time of increasingly tight budgets, and the current sequester budget for homeland security, we must depend on sophisticated risk analysis to guide us in making the tough decisions about our spending…

Since I have been on this committee, I have urged my colleagues not to use our positions of influence to promote fear in the public.

I look forward to more ways that this committee can work to help advance the Department.

I look forward to working with Secretary Johnson to bring about needed reforms.

management challenges become a distraction and have grave consequences for our National security.

I appreciate this subcommittee's effort to give stakeholders a voice in the debate surrounding the administration's grant consolidation proposal.

The preparedness grant programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency serve a vital role in every Congressional District, enabling critical disaster response capabilities.

I would like to express my sympathies to those affected by the tornadoes that have devastated communities across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi.

We owe it to the people of Boston and the rest of America to make sure that the appropriate officials do a thorough review of the situation.

I urge my colleagues to cosponsor that legislation.

I want to extend condolences to the families of the 4 people killed during last week's shooting at Ft. Hood.

It is my hope that this committee continues to find effective ways to support cooperation.

comprehensive immigration reform would help address that problem.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding today's hearing.

To be clear, this is not a case of the Committee on Homeland Security lacking the jurisdiction needed to inform the legislation before us today. It is a case of a chairman failing to ensure his committee was afforded the right to exercise…