"The difficulty with these hearings is it may provide information, but it may provoke unnecessarily individual communities that are trying to do their best."
"If you want to know about the devastation of a nation, these are the innocent Somalis who are fleeing a famine that is the worst famine in the history of Africa at this point."
"But jobs could grow every year. You can see jobs growing every year with technology inventions."
"One of the major benefits is to be able to keep these technologies here, keep the innovation here in the U.S., manufacture the technologies here, and create jobs here."
"I abhor an uneven playing field. I think it is just ludicrous."
"I want to complement you for caring for the mission of this subcommittee and the mission of this full committee."
"I think it is important when the agency itself constructively looks back what maybe, if you will, a regulation that has been utilized sufficiently and there is stark and non-debatable evidence that we..."
"One slip-up can cause a loss of life, and I think this is a process of security that we should continue our oversight on."
"I would almost say that we are all working to put ourselves out of business, but we realize the challenges that we are facing."
"I hope that we can work against H.R. 1--at least, I want to work against it in terms of those potential cuts."
"I am concerned as I notice the H.R. 1, and I just jumped from your fiscal year 2012 budget to H.R. 1 and saw that you would actually lose under this budget some 50 percent in technology and tactical c..."
"I have been on this committee since its origins, since it was considered a select committee on homeland security post hours after 9/11."