Kathleen Rice: “Recent incidents, most notably the gun-smuggling operation involving a Delta employee, have highlighted the urgent need…”

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

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

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.