Jose Serrano actually said...

The fact of life is that during the last 5 years the National Guard has been taxed to go somewhere else overseas.

heaven forbid New York City was attacked again, will people be able to communicate with each other as you understand it now?

I was not in Washington with my colleagues on September 11. I was in New York.

This was a historic event. I had people coming from my district in the Bronx who were over 90 years old.