I want to see--and I can understand, I understand the whole argument you never know when they have to travel to one part.

Thank you for looking at the administrative cost reductions, the duplicative programs that you have.

When he's State-trained, I think that's--again, nothing against Washington bureaucrats, but when you get somebody from the State who has been involved, like you, Mr. Kidd, at the State level and you put him in charge of FEMA, he has…

If the Super Committee doesn't come up with any suggestion, which I hope they do, then there's going to be a sequester.

Do you agree with me that the Stafford Act needs to be updated?

we're all for cutting the deficit, but we have to set certain priorities, and I think emergencies, border security, our military should be some of the priorities that we have.

I voted no because it cut FEMA, State, and local programs by a staggering amount of 55 percent below the enacted level.

I agree wholeheartedly with Chief Kidd that the assistance that we were requesting was being provided from a response perspective.

I certainly want to thank him for all the work that he's done, and certainly I'm happy to please--pleased to join forces with him to address another issue that's vital to the concern of Texans.

I think the new FEMA is certainly a lot better than what we saw in Katrina and a lot of places.

Doing business in a border county is like doing business in a war zone.