Nita Lowey

Congress must provide the FBI with the resources to keep up with these evolving threats.

As we tragically witnessed in Paris and San Bernardino we are facing a new type of terror attack.

I also appreciate your articulation of the challenge you are facing between privacy and security.

I appreciate your mentioning the NICS system, because I just want to follow up on that issue.

I have had legislation on this issue, I think, for the last 20 years.

I just wonder--and I am going to close with this, Mr. Chairman.

It seems to me it is vitally important that background checks are done thoroughly, as the results of incomplete information can be deadly.

I have a question regarding the ATF funding proposed in the President's budget.

It is unclear whether House Republicans will even offer a budget of their own.

I would really highlight three key areas, and these were areas that the President highlighted as major challenges for the country going forward.

In fact, since 2009, under President Obama's leadership, Federal deficits have fallen by nearly three-quarters.

The budget invests more than $2 billion in additional resources to take the fight to ISIL.

I was disappointed because we did make--and I said this before you arrived, and I want to compliment you directly for the bipartisan work.

Yet Speaker Ryan, I understand, is entertaining cutting entitlements through appropriation bills instead of through authorizing committees.

Does the presence of a potentially dangerous pipeline impact the security procedures NRC mandates at a nuclear power plant?

If a fifty mile area around Indian Point were to be evacuated every resident of West Chester County, New York City, even parts of Long Island would be forced to evacuate.

I think you have a lab perspective, which is critical for the work that you do, but it is a little bit hard to integrate your programs, and I do not think it serves America as well as it could.

Literally, I represent neighborhoods where there is waste heat right near these homes, and there is no thinking about how to work with industry.

I will just say in one of the regions I represent, there is a historic neighborhood.

But it would not be incumbent upon them to identify a leak? They have to wait until someone tells them, is that correct?

It seems the NRC is not adequately prioritizing public health and safety.

Thank you for your gracious hospitality and thank you Mr. Chairman as well.

I strongly believe that the NRC has not adequately investigated the risk, nor responded substantively to the concerns that have been raised.

I just wonder what they are looking for as they are walking around there fulltime?

Quite simply there is no way to move all those people safely.