Donald Payne Jr.: “Our ability to issue timely emergency alerts and warnings is an essential component of the National preparedness.”

There are millions of people every day that depend on railroads and trains and Amtrak and local train systems to get back and forth to work.

It makes no sense for the job that the front line is asked to do, that they are undercompensated.

It is critical for us to create new guidelines to fortify our ports and maritime security framework.

We really need to look at what's going on in those countries as well that makes people that desperate.