Peter King

It was the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, who, by the way, was appointed by an Democratic administration.

Since the administration got actively involved, there has not been 1 murder in the last 2 years.

It was originated mainly for the purpose of counterterrorism.

There have been dramatic cuts in the money going to police and fire.

My district lost over 150 people on 9/11. We still have people dying from 9/11 illnesses.

In 2012, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on the States of New York and New Jersey...

I write to request that you broaden the scope of your examination of ideological-based violence.

We are at the stage now where this is a new threat, an evolving threat, a more sophisticated threat.

This Department of Homeland Security was formed and probably the greatest and largest reorganization of our Government in history because of the magnitude of the attack on 9/11 and because we struggled.

At the outset, let me take strong exception to your opening statement. The inference that there was somehow Members of this committee were not concerned about terror attacks carried out by groups like wHite nationalists, Nazis, whatever…

This year if there are more indefensible cuts, they will also be restored.

The fact is the biggest cuts of all were made by the Obama administration, and we restored them.

I would just say to my good friend Mr. Pascrell, one of the reasons we have been successful is this has not been a partisan issue.

What it reminded me of was the story about Zazi's sentencing the other day. It reminded me of how close we came to mass murder just 10 years ago.

I agree with Mr. Cleaver in many respects.

I think right now the chemical plant security is done pretty well.

In the mean time, we could have had a catastrophe here in the country.

I just don't want to get sidetracked from that.

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

I want to thank the witnesses for their testimony.

I will submit every question to you if okay with you regarding CFIUS and China.

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 our homes and infrastructure.

Unfortunately, our focus on emergency preparedness oftentimes occurs in the aftermath of a natural disaster, which is too late.