Jeff Duncan

We have seen the Department of Homeland Security created, 15,000 employees, $3.4 billion complex out on the Potomac.

I think America is threatened more by the State Department focusing solely on al-Qaeda.

I just don't want the agency, the State Department or any agency, to get tunnel vision, to be so focused on what you perceive as the threat coming from al-Qaeda that we get blindsided.

I am frustrated on Homeland Security when I hear some of the agencies aren't talking, aren't sharing information, especially when it comes to immigration issues.

I think you need to start focusing on Iran. Just a word of caution.

I believe the center is on the right path in seeking to steer individuals away from violence.

This issue is really an issue about the war of ideas. How do we achieve victory on a battleground for the hearts and minds of individuals who not only commit violent actions, but who seek to destroy America, our values, our freedoms, and…

The question has been asked. Why are we here today? We are here today because an Executive Summary, part of a 30-Day Report led to the detrimental effect on lives.

Unfortunately it is just far too easy to spend other people's money and when people--or the problem with the Government is when it is not coming out of your own pocket, we have got too many people at the Federal level who are just abusing…

The easiest thing in the world is to spend other people's money, and that it is far too easy.

But we have to have a little--we need to have a little balance and common sense in here.

The EPA wants Peoria to eliminate as many CSOs as it can afford to eliminate, even though the additional CSOs eliminated... will not result in any meaningful water quality improvements.

They are going to end up hurting a lot of poor and lower income and working people in the process.

The largest forest fire in a generation in South Carolina burned 19,000 acres, $20 million in damage, 76 homes destroyed

We have the Sumter National Forest in my district, and we constantly have complaints from local citizens when the United States Forest Service does control burns

We have definitely got to get back to best management practices with regard to managing the United States forest lands

Don't you think that in these urban areas, where the forest land bumps up to urban areas, you know, with a little bit of public awareness campaigns about what that smoke means during prescribed burning would go a long way toward saving the…

But we have talked in this Committee many times about what the environmental policies that were put in place during the late--well, mid-1990s forward, that decimated the timber industry in the Northwest.

I don't want to wait for a crisis situation.

Well, thank you for protecting civil liberties in this country and what you are doing.

The gist of my concern about drones and unmanned aerial systems is the privacy issue.

I think we do need a hearing with the FAA to bring them forward and ask questions about what they are doing.

I want to point to Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion when he talks about the rights of the sovereign States.

It baffles me that when we can grant licenses for 30 or 50 years... we require something that is so complex, expensive, and lengthy in the re-licensing process.

Somebody as a member of a foreign terrorist organization coming into this country is absolutely your responsibility. Absolutely.