Donald Payne: “It is clear to me that something in our National preparedness doctrine has failed.”

Damage from the 2017 natural disasters broke records and made last year the costliest year for disaster-related damage in American history.

I implore the administration to submit a responsible budget that recognizes the connectivity between various important S&T research programs.

I would like to express my disappointment that the Department chose to circumvent Congress and unilaterally reorganized its activities related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) defense pursuant to Section 872 of the…

I hope the witnesses here today will help me understand why the Department rushed to reorganize--without Congressional authorization--at a time when permanent leaders were in place in only one of the impacted offices.