"On behalf of Mr. Payne, Jr., who could not be here today, I want to welcome Ms. McSally to the Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications Subcommittee and wish her well as the new Chairman."
"In Bridgeton most recently, last year, there was a freight train with stuff in it that was bad, kind of overturned and got into the water, got into the air."
"I know we need to figure out, what does it take, therefore, to make--to protect the people within that community, be it an accident or a terrorist attack?"
"So the right-to-know law identifies the kind of chemicals and things that are to be identified and shared."
"That is concerning, because you might not be the first responder but you certainly are the very next contact point in an emergency."
"So it seems to me that the issues of preparedness, protocols, education, exercises, training, cooperation, coordination, and predictability just seem to flow from to your left on."
"I am interested in knowing--I know that corporations that store chemicals have a--have the legal responsibility to report the kind of chemicals that they have in their facilities."
"I am not sure we can get through all of that within a minute and 20 seconds, but those are the questions that I really need to have answered here."
"I think that the problems with an accidental situation just as terrible as an intentional situation."
"My home State of New Jersey, is home of a stretch of highway that the New York Times has coined 'the most dangerous 2 miles in America.'"
"The threat of chemical attacks is not new. Twenty years ago, terrorists in Japan released Sarin gas on Tokyo subway system."