"Thank you very much. It does sound like there is going to be more requests, from a financial standpoint, from the committee and from other committees to implement these plans."
"I will yield back, but I just want to note in Syracuse, New York they are going to start building a 5G manufacturing facility, the first one in the country that is going to have all American component..."
"I voiced some of my concerns about FEMA, not so much how it is managed, but some of the Byzantine rules you have to go through to try and get disaster relief."
"For them, it was catastrophic. For FEMA it was a blip on a screen, and they didn't get any money."
"It may not rise to the level of a big disaster for a place like New York City, but it is devastating for people in upstate New York."
"I introduced H.R. 4358, the Preliminary Damage Assessment Improvement Act, that would help clarify the support FEMA provides on damage assessments."
"I look forward to working with you, Chairwoman Titus, on critical issues of this Subcommittee as Ranking Member."
"Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that. I am going to kind of give you a fact pattern, and then maybe we can work from that fact pattern, because I think it would be instructive here."
"There is, literally, hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars' worth of damages on this shoreline that can be proven, but they don't fall into the FEMA bucket."
"I commend all of my colleagues for their probing questions because it is important, but I will make this general observation based on my time as a prosecutor."
"I see the biometric technology filling a similar role. It is going to help law enforcement."
"I encourage Mr. Mina never to let your guard down and always follow any problems with these systems and make it better because in the end, we are all going to benefit."