Kathleen Rice: “The fiscal year 2020 CBP budget proposal includes a $5 billion request for a border wall.”

How can we create or encourage a more holistic approach to disaster relief that improves intergovernmental coordination?

I think what we are--the subject matter of today's hearing brings me to that--again to that issue of how we get people around safely and efficiently.

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.

We all agree that we have to put more money into this program across the board.