Bonnie Watson Coleman

Thank you. Mr. McCormick, do you have anything to share on it?

I am really interested in what resources that you don't have that you may need.

I want to thank my colleague from Maryland for yielding to me so I might speak on an issue that is very important to all of us. I want to speak on behalf of the 43 million people who are SNAP recipients, many of whom are working each and…

I think that it isn't so much a theory of survival as it is the possibility of not surviving at all. I think that we are finding ourselves in a situation right now where those who have less have the rawest deal they have had in a very long…

I thank Mr. Raskin for raising that issue. I think that that is one of the most prominent issues that people of this country need to understand. Government has a significant role. That role is to protect the opportunities, rights, and…

I am offended that we make assumptions about people who we may think are able-bodied or should be working...

I agree with everyone that every able-bodied person in this country who has the skills and the opportunity, and is free of discrimination, should be working, and that the work that they have should pay a living wage so that they don't have…

I am particularly offended to sit here and listen to either my colleagues or those who are testifying to suggest that there are people who are gaming a system...

There has never been equality in this country. Inequality is at its absolutely highest level right now.

I want to associate myself with Mr. Katko because I was up there on the Northern Border and a lot of concerns were expressed with regard to trafficking as well as drugs, opioids in particular.

Did you have anything--did you have any input in this budget?

I guess the last thing I need to understand from you in writing is explain how we are justifying putting additional resources down on the Southern Border...

I am particularly focused on what needs to be done to ensure that everyone that needs to be feeding into this information sharing process is doing so.

I join my colleagues in remembering those who lost their lives in these tragic attacks and in keeping their families, friends, and loved ones in our prayers.

We fail to recognize that there were instances of See Something, Say Something and tips, but we weren't able to really do what we needed to do to preclude that horrible situation.

I just want to know what happened.

I am a proud American and I am proud of your organizations and the professionalism that is displayed by all of your employees.

This See Something, Say Something is very important here.

It is imperative that we examine attacks on the homeland closely, no matter the ideology or the motivation driving them, to better identify and to disrupt future attacks.

So then I am going to ask that we do have a very detailed response to each aspect of this question.

It is my understanding that after the Boston bombing, the FBI sent out a directive to the field requiring increased information sharing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank each of you for your testimony. It has been very helpful and enlightening.

You all did a remarkable job. I watched it. You know, I was glued to the TV as everyone else was.

Is there standardized training mechanisms to deal with this so that all the police forces who are willing to train their employees are getting the same sort of information?

I need to know what is happening on a Federal level, talking to another partner here, which would be the armed forces, that has a responsibility to feed information into some kind of system where it should so that we would know that the…