ms. sanchez: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today in opposition to this amendment. and i don't take that lightly. i spent 18 years on the armed services committee, and about 12 years on the homeland security committee. and with any decision like this, we have to weigh what we know and what we don't know. we know that if left unchecked isis would become a direct threat not only to the united states but possibly to the entire world. and that is why we are going after them currently in iraq. with partners that we know we can trust, such as the kurds. we know we cannot sit on our hands, close our eyes, and hope that isis goes away. hat's why we need a good plan. we know that we cannot do this alone. that we need a committed international coalition to stop isis. so the president says we have a coalition of 40. it's interesting because i remember the iraq war and the coalition. some of our coalition members sent one person. i'd really like to know who our coalition is and what they are really going to do before i vote for any plan. what don't we know? we don't know how mo

ms. sanchez. >> thank you, mr. chairman.ner davis and chief, following the september 11 attacks, the department of homeland security developed the national incident management system, nims, to improve the ability of first responders to coordinate multijurisdictional response efforts. how have federal grants enabled response organizations to implement nims, and would reductions to or changes to the structure of our federal homeland security grant programs such as uwasi, etc., you know, what the administration is suggesting is we clump everything together in an all-hazard thing versus the different programs that we've set up. do you feel that the approach by the administration is correct? would it harm you if we did it that way? etc., etc. >> i can tell you from experience that the programs as they are set up have been very effective, and our ability to coordinate with other agencies, our ability to train on the nims system and to game it out on tabletops and in real life situations when we were dealing with the sports victori

ms. sanchez. every foreign service officer must understand they have a role in their own security. i agree with that wholeheartedly and yet when ambassador stevens played a role in his own security on cable number one, table number two and cable number three that responsibility was not absorbed or reflected in the state department. you are not offering anything as it relates to fundamental change because based on what the rules are right now mr. secretary you have the authority, you have the capacity and you have got the flexibility to do the benghazi structure again. am i wrong? >> the rules have not changed. who is responsible is clearly defined. >> who is responsible his fourth down on the food chain. >> no i would disagree with that. i'm responsible. the latest example when we are trying to open a facility in southern turkey, we had a request to put personnel in on the ground for start operations for humanitarian operations. we need a facility. we are in the process of leasing a facility. we know where it's going to be. a request came to me from the people on the ground saying

ms. sanchez: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today in opposition to this amendment. and i don't take that lightly. i spent 18 years on the armed services committee, and about 12 years on the homeland security committee. and with any decision like this, we have to weigh what we know and what we don't know. we know that if left unchecked isis would become a direct threat not only to the united states but possibly to the entire world. and that is why we are going after them currently in iraq. with partners that we know we can trust, such as the kurds. we know we cannot sit on our hands, close our eyes, and hope that isis goes away. hat's why we need a good plan. we know that we cannot do this alone. that we need a committed international coalition to stop isis. so the president says we have a coalition of 40. it's interesting because i remember the iraq war and the coalition. some of our coalition members sent one person. i'd really like to know who our coalition is and what they are really going to do before i vote for any plan. what don't we know? we don't know how mo

ms. sanchez. >> thank you mr. chairman think it'll are witnesses for joining us for what i hope will be a productive and a forward-looking hearing on what can be done and what is being currently done and what we have yet to do in terms of trying to prevent a tragedy from benghazi from happening again or at the least minimizing the potential for something like that happening again. i'm going to get my questions in the same realm of where the questioning left off. talking about the security accountability framework within the department of state. defense practices panel which was led by mr. sullivan determined quote a clearly defined accountability and responsibility for security at every level is fundamental for effective security management within an organization. and the panel recommended the development of an accountability framework. is that correct mr. sullivan? >> yes maam. >> in response to that recommendation the department created a security accountability framework that the department explained clearly de

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