Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Tom Rooney

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Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.

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My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

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I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.

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When I see how they're laying it out or what they're saying then I'll make up my mind, from what I know now my predisposition is not to support that.

That assumes we will immediately turn and leak that information, which would jeopardize potentially sources and methods.

This is a good way to raise money, scaring people that we’re going back to the days of Duke Cunningham, duke Cunningham didn’t go to jail by accident.

When we get into the winner-take-all states.

In football, it's kind of like firing your coach mid-season, if you keep doing that, you're going to have a perpetual loser.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

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As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

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