Planning is extremely important.

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

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

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

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

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

I think, in addition to the analysis it is important to have real-life experiences as well, and I hope that is part of your assessment.

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

We cannot focus too narrowly on any one preventive method.