I would just say to my good friend Mr. Pascrell, one of the reasons we have been successful is this has not been a partisan issue.

The fact is the biggest cuts of all were made by the Obama administration, and we restored them.

What it reminded me of was the story about Zazi's sentencing the other day. It reminded me of how close we came to mass murder just 10 years ago.

I think right now the chemical plant security is done pretty well.

I just don't want to get sidetracked from that.

I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony.

I agree with Mr. Cleaver in many respects.

In the mean time, we could have had a catastrophe here in the country.

I guess it bothered me. We are 45 minutes into the meeting, into the hearing before we mentioned terrorism.

Pre-disaster mitigation has the potential to limit the negative effects of natural disasters.

I do hope that, as we go forward, we realize that our main goal as a committee, our main purpose from the genesis was to focus on terrorism.