"I am particularly concerned about the effect of sequestration on cyber operations, which by their nature are more vulnerable to short-term budgetary pressure."
"I look forward to working with these gentlemen and ladies as well."
"I hope that we will pay attention to that during this session of Congress to make sure that the Federal agencies have the resources they need to be able to deal with the consequences of Hurricane Sand..."
"I am going to be working with Governor O'Malley to make sure that the individuals who have been impacted by this storm have as strong a partner from the Federal Government as we can possibly have."
"I have introduced the Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act to provide funding to communities for projects such as reducing flooding in vulnerable communities."
"Our first obligation now is to make sure the people who are affected and the communities that are affected, that we do what we can to bring them back to where they need to be."
"We need to invest in those types of common sense ways that we can deal with the realities of severe weather."
"We need to take a look at the environmental impacts. There have been numerous oil spills as a result of Sandy that are having an impact on our environment."
"This level of intrusion into the perimeter of a highly secure nuclear weapons facility is unprecedented--and it is completely unacceptable."
"Let me be clear: I rank this failure alongside the Air Force's unauthorized shipments of nuclear weapons to Barksdale Air Force Base in 2007 and nuclear weapons components to Taiwan, which was reporte..."
"Ranking Member Sanchez and I spoke earlier, and we agreed that the system is broken."