Peter King actually said...

I guess it bothered me. We are 45 minutes into the meeting, into the hearing before we mentioned terrorism.

Pre-disaster mitigation has the potential to limit the negative effects of natural disasters.

I do hope that, as we go forward, we realize that our main goal as a committee, our main purpose from the genesis was to focus on terrorism.

We should use every disaster as an opportunity to learn and improve our mitigation capabilities to decrease the loss of life and damage to o...