"I firmly believe that DHS's role needs the clarity and authority of statute to most effectively do its mission."
"I think it is really important that we not get into a bidding war, but we all play a very critical role in this new governance in this space."
"we are really playing at homeland security, we are not doing homeland security."
"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 must bring improvements to the security and reliability of one of our most important critical infrastructures, our electric grid."
"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 ele..."
"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."
"Ranking Member Clarke was one of the U.S. bipartisan co-chairs of this event, along with Representative Trent Franks."
"I hope we don't see that kind of decision making again in DNDO."