Yvette Clarke actually said...

"I just wanted to add to the DHS question that I had raised earlier that one of the observations of the Sandy event was the unintended consequence of the grid going--the electricity going out was that ..."

"As I see it, the main risk from a terrorist attack succeeding against the electric power industry would be a widespread power outage that lasted for an extended period of time."

"Experts generally agree that a failure, for whatever reason, involving several key EHV transformers could cause blackouts lasting weeks."

"How do you plan to propose international standards if there are so many different individualized systems that need specialized mitigation?"