Yvette Clarke

Today, I rise in support of the Senate passed bill, S. 47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 also known as ``VAWA.'' This bipartisan bill expands the authority of the Federal Government, the States, law enforcement…

I get extremely concerned, and when we talk about cybersecurity for instance, we know what the vulnerabilities are.

if we treated our armed services the way we treat homeland security, other nations would be eating our lunch.

we are really playing at homeland security, we are not doing homeland security.

Monday, November 26, 2012, is a great day for the residents of my town. New York City went 24 hours without a single person being injured or killed by gun violence. That day, the Brownsville section of Brooklyn within my district, which…

I thank the gentleman for the time. And I want to urge all of my colleagues to support the Frelinghuysen amendment, which ensures a full $60.1 billion package will jump-start a recovery process for the families and small businesses of the…

I would like to thank the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, the gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Fudge), for summoning us to be a part of this Special Order this evening. It is quite timely as we mark the 1-month anniversary of the…

I thank my colleague for yielding. Madam Speaker, I've joined my colleague, Dr. Donna Christensen, Representative of the Virgin Islands, here tonight in remembrance of the 20 first-grade children and six educators who were mercilessly…

We must bring improvements to the security and reliability of one of our most important critical infrastructures, our electric grid.

We simply cannot afford to lose broad sections of the grid for days, or weeks.

We are still learning about the significant threat that could come in the form of a natural or manmade Electromagnetic Pulse.

I believe it is important that we find the building blocks for a partnership that will bring improvements to the security and reliability of one of our most important critical infrastructures, the electric grid.

Ranking Member Clarke was one of the U.S. bipartisan co-chairs of this event, along with Representative Trent Franks.

It has been said before, the enormous devastation that would result if terrorists use a nuclear weapon or nuclear materials successfully, requires us to do all we can to prevent them from entering or moving through the United States.

I hope we don't see that kind of decision making again in DNDO.

What I hope we are going to hear today is how DNDO's mission can be better defined.

Customs and Border Patrol officers working at our Nation's ports of entry have an extremely complex and difficult job.

But we need to know more about their R&D activities, their resource requests, and their asset allocations.

The subcommittee must be assured that after investing approximately $35 million RAMP without yielding any demonstrable outcomes FPS is indeed expending its resources effectively and scaling up MIST.

I look forward to the release of that report and hope that we are able to revisit this subject at that time.

Today's hearing will allow the subcommittee to hear from witnesses about the Federal Protective Service's progress in improving its ability to provide adequate protection to the Federal Government's more than 9,000 facilities.

The protection of Federal facilities may be significantly hampered if FPS's law enforcement security officers do not receive training on the Modified Infrastructure Survey Tool (MIST).

It seems to me that as the landlord for most Federal buildings, the General Services Administration benefits from these security assessments.

We need a more clear explanation of the implementation and utility of the modern infrastructure survey tool, or MIST, and how it compares, hopefully surpasses, the failed risk assessment and management program, or RAMP.

I find this whole topic quite fascinating.