Oral Statement

the chaotic event, if we were to lose one or two of our grids in the northeastern part of the United States and a massive amount of people without electricity, without the ability to communicate, without our hospitals being able to…

I think conflating the North Korean government with the Muslim Brotherhood is to make a category error.

the mistakes of the past must be corrected and those who finance terror be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I see parallels to today with some other places we are engaged.

On February 17 of this year, my colleagues and I authored a letter asking Attorney General Sessions to reopen the investigation into the unindicted co-conspirators listed in the largest terrorist financing trial in our Nation's history.

Simply put, DHS's bureaucracy should get operators what they need at the best cost to the taxpayer, and then get out of the way.

I know first-hand that Americans are fed up with the status quo and are looking for ways to improve how the Government does business.

I urge the Trump administration to fully leverage the work of these watchdogs to drain the waste and inefficiency from DHS.

We raised alarms about security threats and watched horrified as terrorists attacked us on our soil right here at home.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) simply must find a better way to tackle these challenges.