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handle is hein.cbhear/cbhearings98745 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:05 a.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Mary L. Landrieu (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Landrieu, Lautenberg, Coats, Cochran, Mur- kowski, and Moran. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY STATEMENT OF HON. JANET NAPOLITANO, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR MARY L. LANDRIEU Senator LANDRIEU. Good morning. I would like to call our sub- committee to order for the purpose of considering the Department's budget for 2012. Let me first welcome our new ranking member, Senator Coats. I am pleased to work with Senator Coats in the next 2 years and really appreciate his leadership in this area. Welcome, Madam Secretary. We are happy to have you present your budget this morning. You lead a Department of 221,000 men and women who are on the front lines every day protecting our Na- tion and our citizens. And we commend those employees for their dedication and their hard work. They are in our airports, our ports, along our borders, considering the intelligence coming in all over our country, we appreciate their work and we appreciate your lead- ership. My goal is to produce a bipartisan, fiscally responsible Homeland Security bill for fiscal year 2012 that provides this Department with the resources it needs to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all threats, manmade and natural. I share your commitment to the goals established in the Quadrennial Homeland Security Re- view: preventing terrorism, securing our borders, enforcing our im- migration laws, safeguarding cyberspace, and ensuring resiliency in the face of natural or manmade disasters. Securing this Nation is not just, as you know, Madam Secretary, a Federal Government responsibility. State and local governments share that responsibility, and frankly, as well as many of our cor- porations who are doing their part and individual citizens as they are trained to recognize threats that potentially are occurring in

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