old for uasi and department of homeland security. that we all know this threat is not going anywhere. it's increasing. today we see homeland radicalized terrorists conducting attacks as we saw in san bernardino. we see individuals, 1.2 miles from my residence in fairfax, virginia, getting locked up last friday. we see out in sterling, virginia, individuals inspired by ice is going and weapons seeking to attack targets in this particular region. we need to be funding local law enforcement. they are the first responders. both the police and sheriffs department, and offices in orlando bravely dealt with that particular critical incident. yet we are asking the law enforcement community in places, and first responders, firefighters and others to deal with this ever-growing complex challenge, as funding levels in places get cut. we can expect law enforcement as a community is going to be prepared -- can't -- dealing with these situations over time when we are cutting funds. uasi funds, homeland security programs am a congress has heard fro

the central border regions under the uasi and program on an annual basis and the purpose of uasi is to enhance capabilities to prevent respond to and recover from not only terrorism but a broad range of other threats and hazards affecting our entire region. this funding allows us to establish measure -- measurable priorities and consequences by since 2002 in the home security act was signed into law by president george w. bush their president george w. bush there'll and president george w. bush their land to kissimmee sanford msa received grant funds annually from 2004 until 2012. the funding stream tragically change in the past four years starting in 2013 and continuing to 2016. orlando kissimmee sanford area has not ranked high enough in relative risk score to receive u.s. funding even though we are ranked number one on the msa for domestic visitor population in the consequent section of the formative form there. from 2012 to 2016 hour areas appealed to the relative risk lauren asked the department of homeland security and fema to reassess the data. it in may members origin travel wa

the whole uasi. >> congressman will take a look at that. i'm not familiar with that senior policy group. >> you're not familiar with the group? >> there's no senior policy group that sets the urban area security initiative priorities nationally. i think that is likely referring to a specific urban area jurisdiction. >> okay. then who does determine it? >> so -- i go back to thes preparedness policy identify 42 court capabilities that are the priorities how this administration is defined preparedness against which all of the grant investments should be invested. they're very broad. they reign from prevention capabilities such as information sharing and interdiction. search and detection, all the way through to response and recovery capabilities. so we have administration determined priorities for preparedness grant funding. we work with grantees to make sure funds are spend against priorities and monitor how the funds are spent. of course, the department inspector general audits grant recipients and where we find that funds have not been use