WATCHC LIVE: Sens. Maggie Hassan and Mitt Romney are holding a hearing on what law enforcement has learned in the 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.
Also testifying at the hearing will be Rich Serino, who was deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the time, and Kerry Sleeper, who was deputy assistant director of the FBI.
"New England will never forget the day that two terrorists detonated bombs during the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. Ten years after this horrific tragedy, we must examine how that attack has impacted our country’s ongoing efforts to respond to and prevent terrorist attacks," said Hassan, chair of the Senate's Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight Subcommittee, in a statement.
Romney noted the advancements made in the last decade, and since the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., but said in a statement,"our country is less secure when we take our eyes off the ball."In this hearing, I'm pleased that we will have an opportunity to examine what we are doing well and what needs improvement as we work to prevent future attacks."
A series of events were held in Boston on Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.at the site on Boylston Street, then another ceremony for which church bells rang.
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