I talk often about a holistic approach to housing.

We are now over the next year going to be introducing a Scholar House model for youth who have aged out of foster care.

Greater flexibility with Federal housing program regulations will provide States with more control of the resources needed.

Housing is a key component of successful recovery programs and essential for long-term recovery.

I think the THRIVE Act goes directly to the participants. It is a set-aside of the Housing Choice Vouchers.

I think it is good in the fact that it targets a need for housing in recovery services.

The Federal Government is behind the curve in establishing robust supply chain security measures.

I could never understand why we retained them.

There is no question that nation-states and criminal actors are constantly trying to exploit U.S. Government and private-sector systems to steal information or insert potentially harmful hardware or software.

I again want to thank my colleague, Mr. Langevin, for his bipartisan support on this legislation, as in so many other pieces of bipartisan legislation, and for the outstanding work he does on the subcommittee and the committee. Mr…

MS-13 is to a large extent focused on my district. We have had over 25 murders in the last 2 years.

There has been over 20 attempted attacks against New York besides the two attacks on the World Trade Center.

Yet in the budget, your--grants are being cut--grants are being cut.

every year, when we say $300 million cut from UASI and all these numbers, it seems like we are going through the same motions every year.

I want to make it clear that the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security do an outstanding job.

the whole notion that we have tremendous throughput through open transportation facilities, we have a multi-layered approach in looking to safeguard folks

It has been no secret that years ago there was a breakdown in cooperation and coordination between the FBI and the NYPD in certain areas.

God forbid an attack does come, northern New Jersey and New York City are going to be working together.

I don't know why one administration after another continues to propose these cuts.

I think all our applications are data-driven. They are based on risk. I think we have the highest risk in the Nation in our area.

I have been with the committee now the whole 15 or 16 years, whatever it is.

I want to ask really one question for the panel, and it is more of a statement than a question...

I have real issues with the cuts by the Trump administration. But before that, I had just as much concern with the cuts proposed by the Obama administration.

It seems to me that the threats in many ways are greater than before 9/11.

I am not trying to create a feud. I already have one with Mulvaney. How much of this problem comes from Management and Budget as opposed to Homeland Security?