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

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

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

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

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

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.

Unfortunately, FEMA chose not to attend this hearing to hear directly from those who have been working on the ground to make disaster response more equitable.