José E. Serrano

But to me, what the Chairman has said, and Mr. McDowell, the Commissioner, has not spoken against, is that everybody is putting information online. Why not this information also?

Everyone here is concerned with that, but if you come from New York City, that is still an issue that is with us every day in terms of what happened September 11th.

I just have one more question, and then I will submit a couple for the record, okay?

we do want you to be effective, and we want you to take on new areas.

Homeland Security was not created in a vacuum. That whole conglomeration was created as a reaction to something.

I think what we need just to remember, every so often, as we talk about this new agency, is that it didn't happen in a vacuum.

What about the territories? As you know, the territories are always an afterthought in Congress, in corporate America and everywhere else.

I suspect that is an issue that will have bipartisan support, people saying make sure that you are doing the right thing in that department.

we treat everybody equally. And yet when they go back home, they don't get the same services...

I would like to associate myself with Mr. Honda's comments about the MBDAs and the importance of keeping them strong.

But one could argue that the one in Hawaii could have told Alaska what was going to happen, or the one in Alaska was going to tell Hawaii what is going to happen, makes more sense than either of them can tell Mexico or Puerto Rico or the…

we need to know where our seafood is coming from.

I understand the desirability of having a tsunami warning center in the Caribbean from the standpoint of some, certainly from reassurance, to know that somebody is there, paying attention.

I always agree with my Chairman.

I don't have anything. Thank you.

In the future, with very tight budgeting, if Congress says spend money on this, there should be a good explanation as to why it wasn't spent on that.

The Education Partnership Program is vitally important for supporting students from underserved communities as they study and receive advanced degrees.

I am convinced that America is number one in the world, and yes, we have our set of competitors.

I think you have to invest, as you try to do other things.

I think there is a need to revisit the issue of whether Alaska and Hawaii can take care of what is happening in the Caribbean.

That warning center will not just be helpful to our territories in the Caribbean, but it will also be helpful to all the other people in that area.

you have an agency that is one of those agencies I have always said that everybody loves because it does not hurt anyone.

It's pretty embarrassing to those of us who advocate for NOAA to find out that those things we thought were agreed upon ended up not being agreed upon.

I would like to thank Congressman Dicks for yielding me time so that I can comment on the Financial Services and General Government section of this bill. I would also like to thank both him and Chairman Rogers for their hard work in…

During our full committee markup on the Interior bill, Congressman LaTourette offered an amendment to prevent the Great Lakes States from receiving any EPA funding if they have implemented ballast water rules that have stronger timelines…