Peter King

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.

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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

The combined Federal, State, and local efforts are absolutely essential if we are going to remain safe, because we have an enemy that will never stop coming at us.

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.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank all the witnesses that are here today for the testimony.

Iran continues to prop up Bashar Al-Assad, and is complicit in this attack and the on-going atrocities perpetrated by this evil dictator.

This increased flexibility will afford Iran the capital and resources to further support proxy terrorists and Shia militias, world-wide.

Since 1984, the government of Iran has been designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism.

These militia groups pose a direct threat to the homeland and U.S. interests abroad.

The Iranian revolution, which started in 1979, has been disastrous for the region, for the world, and particularly a significant threat to the United States.

Since 1984 the government of Iran has been designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism.

We have got a headquarters that is designated to protect the American people from very real existential threats of death.

I could go on, but I won't, because as Miss Rice rightly indicated, it is time to stop fixing blame and start fixing problems.

When I was a taxpayer and not a member of this august body, I got so sick and tired of the concept that money would solve all the problems in the world.