Donald Payne Jr.

No issue is more important than clean drinking water right now.

Our issue starts at the service lines going into the homes.

I just want to commend the County Executive once again for stepping up and stepping in and filling a void.

It's not the first time that he's done that for the city of Newark. In another administration, he was able to support that community.

I expressed to them my concern of what I saw in Flint, that they needed to start really paying attention and checking their water systems.

Our children are experiencing a new normal and one that troubles me.

I applaud the Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Subcommittee for the work it continues to do on these efforts.

It has become increasingly clear that we cannot depend on the Trump administration to make meaningful progress on issues related to school security.

Legislation introduced by Chairman Payne--H.R. 6920, The 'School Security is Homeland Security Grant Act of 2018'--would provide dedicated Federal funding...

I hope that Congress and the White House can be a help rather than a hindrance to those efforts.

we encourage the Subcommittee, and all Members of Congress, to focus on providing students with positive supports that maintain safe, healthy, and inclusive schools

Arming teachers puts our children at greater risk and does nothing to stop active shooters or other forms of school gun violence.

We encourage you to prioritize prevention and hold up proven evidence-based programs that can help stop tragedies before they happen.

We must do more to ensure that school violence and shootings are a thing of the past and our kids feel safe when learning.

This added resource would enable schools to meet the very goals we have set out to achieve in the areas of prevention and response.

I look forward to continuing the important discussion today on what more Congress can do to enhance school security in America.

We must do more to ensure that school violence, and shootings, are a thing of the past, and our kids feel safe when learning.

We have to protect our most vulnerable, which is our children, but we have to do a better job as Americans of leading, loving, and showing the leadership to prevent this.

We remain dedicated to continuing these efforts; to further collaborating with our law enforcement partners...

These measures get to the root of problems students are facing and proactively create safer environments for everyone in the school community.

So New Jersey is a leader when it comes to schoolbus safety, requiring all schoolbuses to have the three-point safety belts.

I was in student transportation for 10 years.

For there to be some type of discouragement in working with organizations that are on the ground, doing the work, and have the information and can be a vital resource in moving these efforts forward, it just baffles me.

We have been trying since 2017 to continue working with FEMA's Office of Disability Integration and Coordination, and unfortunately, we have not been successful in that.

I have introduced the Homeland Security for Children Act, which would require the Department of Homeland Security to incorporate the needs of children into its emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.