National Protection and Programs Directorate Under Secretary Rand Beers and Deputy Under Secretary Philip Reitinger testified before the United States House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security regarding the NPPD Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request.

Testimony of Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief FOIA Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, Privacy Office, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on "Why Isn't The Department of Homeland Security Meeting The President's Standard on FOIA?"

Testimony of Donna Bucella, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs on "Exploring Drug Gangs' Ever Evolving Tactics to Penetrate the Border and the Federal Government's Efforts to Stop Them."

Testimony of Ivan K. Fong, Office of the General Counsel, Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on "Why Isn't The Department of Homeland Security Meeting The President's Standard on FOIA?"

Testimony of Donald Neufeld, Associate Director, Service Center Operations Directorate, U.S. Citizenship And Immigration Services, Before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement on "H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers."

Testimony of Rand Beers, Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce ""H.R. 908, a bill to extend the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to maintain the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program."

Under Secretary Tara O’Toole, Science and Technology Directorate, before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, "S&T Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request"

Secretary Napolitano commended the announcement of a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of additional individuals responsible for the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE HSI Special Agent Victor Avila.

Administrator Craig Fugate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, testified before the United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management regarding improving the nation's response to catastrophic disasters and how to minimize costs and streamline our emergency management programs.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today delivered remarks at the Department of Homeland Security’s Science Conference and 5th Annual University Network Summit—highlighting DHS’ continued collaboration with America’s science and engineering communities to help secure our nation and applauding the collaborative research efforts of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) University Centers of Excellence and their partners in leveraging our latest science and technology to protect against and respond and recover from terrorism, natural disasters and other threats.