Summer Lee

I want to make sure you are not suggesting that the people of Pakistan are comfortable with terrorist acts and are not making efforts.

What do you want from the Government in terms of assistance?

I am much more comforted by the fact that you would be on the Commercial Facilities Coordinating Council than I might be on real estate.

I intend to and hope my Ranking Member will join me on encouraging, by way of letter, DHS to move forward on the characterization of the standards.

Enough time, if we were unlucky to have a number of terrorist acts, if that was what terrorists intended to do in the United States, and we were not prepared.

We are grateful to all the witnesses for recognizing their role in that.

Do you feel that our mechanism, DHS, FBI, and others, are moving toward understanding the potential for commando-type activities on the soil of the United States?

Thank you, Commissioner.

They were not suicide bombers.

I can assure you being on this committee, help is on the way.

Well, thank you. I know that that is something that we need to further review.

We should be talking about terrorism and preparedness, because both of those, coming together, meaning prepared to fight terrorism and being prepared will help to save lives.

I think you have given us our marching orders.

I do want to emphasize, since I was physically on-site, using my somewhat non-, both nonscientific and non-law-enforcement eye, the importance of internal preparedness plans for hotels.

Can we say that there is ever too much money invested in security?

If we have not gotten a wake-up call over the last series of years, noting the numbers of terrorist acts that have occurred...

I will remind each Member that he or she will have 5 minutes to question the panel.

We cannot focus too narrowly on any one preventive method.

I might edit it and say private and public sector, and that is what we hope the testimony will present us with this afternoon.

I think the Chairwoman deserves tremendous credit for taking an international issue and showing why it is such...

This is not necessarily a hearing only on Mumbai. It is asking the serious question of, how do we protect the Nation's infrastructure.

I sincerely hope that we can learn from the tragic event and apply its lessons to what we are doing to secure the same types of assets in the United States that were targeted in India.

I was troubled to hear that information about mitigation measures was not posted on the Homeland Security Information Network for nearly a week following the Mumbai attack.

I have tasked the subcommittee staff with looking into DHS coordination efforts with the private sector, very important.

Planning is extremely important.