Thank you, Chairman Merkley, and I appreciate your calling today's subcommittee hearing.

So I identify with at least two members of the panel here.

This problem is not new, but the urgency is greater than ever in light of the increasing number of ransomware attacks.

Thank you very much.

Truth, Ali, will be the disinfectant for this great country of ours.

And while institutions and do it and while Joe Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, a peaceful transfer of power didn’t happen this year. A violent mob was pointed toward the Capitol and told to win a trial by…

We want to know who financed it. We want to know who helped organize it.

As the subcommittee has learned through its recent hearings, many of the root causes of migration from Central America are interrelated.

What would you task this committee in its body of work, what would you like to see us do?

I rise to join my colleagues in expressing my grave concern over the nomination of Ms. Tracy Stone- Manning to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. The Office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management is tasked with an…

We want to know who facilitated this. If individuals came to a peaceful rally on the 6th, why did they bring bear spray, why did they bring all those other weapons with them?

I appreciate that statement, but more action is needed to push back on threats from China and hold Beijing accountable for its malicious behavior.

Well, let me say nothing is off limits. We`ll follow the facts. On the meetings we`ve had with the members of this committee, they have all said wherever the facts and I investigation lead us, that`s where we`ll go. So nothing sacred.

Do you think us stakeholders' viewpoints were heard during this necessarily hurried-up process?

If not for the heroism of the United States Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department, many more lives might have been lost.

Let's be clear. The rioters who tried to rob us of our democracy were propelled here by a lie.

Some people are trying to deny what happened, to whitewash it, to turn the insurrectionists into martyrs.

I think a majority of Americans are really looking forward to that as well.