Tom Lantos has been a voice for strong policies to protect our nation, but he has expressed concern that we have seriously underfunded programs to protect us at home. The bungled federal government response to hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast demonstrated the Administration's failures to deal with our preparedness to face emergency situations.
- At Hearing in San Francisco, Lantos Calls Sluggish Response to Bay Oil Spill Frightening in a Post-9/11 World, Press Release, November 19, 2007
- Lantos says administration not prepared for disasters, San Mateo Daily Journal, August 30, 2007
- Lantos: We Need More Cargo Inspection at Nation's Ports than Newly Signed Law Requires, California Chronicle, October 14, 2006
- Lantos Lambastes Administration and Congressional Republicans for Shortchanging Homeland Security, Press Release, October 4, 2006
- Chertoff To Face Tough Questions About Homeland Security Funding, KCBS, June 3, 2006 (excerpts)
- Lantos Protests Homeland Security Grant Cut for Bay Area, Press Release, June 2, 2006
- Lantos assures less rail hazard, San Mateo Daily Journal, February 23, 2006
- Crowd heeds readiness message; Local officials paint grim picture of "big one's" effects on Bay Area, San Mateo County Times, February 26, 2006 (excerpts)
- County crime lab to get half-million dollar grant, San Mateo Daily News, February 3, 2006
- Lantos: Congressional spending battle 'ugly', San Mateo Daily Journal, December 21, 2005
- Lantos calls for security funds, San Francisco Examiner, December 21, 2005 (excerpts)
- Explosives theft underscores legislation, San Mateo Daily Journal, December 21, 2005
- Second shot for explosives security standards, San Mateo Daily Journal, November 22, 2005
- Explosives security has Lantos mad, San Mateo Daily Journal, November 1, 2005
- Transit agencies get grant to improve rail security - 5 systems to split $7.1 million on efforts to thwart terrorism, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2005
- Democrats call for increased transit security - Bush officials say they assess all risks in anti-terror effort, San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2005
- Bay transit on alert - Security tightened, but experts worry bigger and deadlier attacks are inevitable, San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2005
- Can they be stopped? At home and abroad, experts worry that bigger, deadlier attacks are inevitable, San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2005