Andrew Garbarino: “I thank our Chairs for calling this important hearing, and I thank our witnesses for being here today.”

I fought to lift the cap on SALT and ensure hardworking Long Island families see the benefits of this important legislation.

I appreciate President Trump’s responsiveness, engagement, and swift action to heed my calls and reverse these drastic and dangerous funding cuts to vital DHS grants, which support New York City’s counterterrorism efforts.

Being chairman of the committee, being a New Yorker, it's one of those things you focus on, and you want to make sure another 9/11 doesn't happen, and doesn't ever happen again. And that's my goal. That's my priority.

That's why 9/11 happened. 9/11 happened because our intelligence agencies, they were siloed, they were not sharing information. I don't know if it was a complacency or whatever, but there were a lot of problems.