I applaud the Committee as well as your staffs for focusing on this ever-important topic.

Our veterans deserve better. The Vietnam Era Veterans Hepatitis-C Testing Enhancement Act focuses on Hepatitis-C screening and does not take away from the VA's efforts.

Thank you, Jim. I want to start by thanking both Chairman Langevin and Chairman Lynch for holding such an important and cross-cutting hearing.

With regard to emerging technologies, specifically 5G technology, and the exponential increase in the number of connected devices and services in the very near future, how exactly are you factoring this technological evolution into your…

As you think about our vulnerabilities, are insider threats an area of concern with respect to our Nation's internet architecture?

I proudly represent New York's 21st Congressional District where nearly 1 in 10 adults is a veteran.

this is a very important area, one that we take seriously, this committee, and we will continue to do that kind of work in a bipartisan fashion, and I mean that sincerely.

These kinds of voting restrictions have a disproportionate negative impact on racial and language minority voters, and contrary to what we just heard, disparate impact is very, very much a very useful evidentiary tool.

Do you agree with this statement?

Since the Supreme Court's disastrous 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively gutted the most critical enforcement provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the preclearance requirement, we have seen a troubling trend.

I want to spend some time here discussing some of 3M's current tactics when it comes to accepting responsibility for PFAS.

And if that's the case, why is 3M taking a position of denying the scientific findings of its own scientists?

This is our job.

It's Congress' fault, congressional Democrats.

In the lobbying materials by the coalition, it states, and I quote, the weight of current scientific evidence does not show that PFOS or PFOA cause adverse health effects in humans at current rates of exposure.

I would like to enter into the record a presentation by the Responsible Science Policy Coalition dated July 24th, 2018.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me express my appreciation to you for hosting us at the field hearing on voting rights in Memphis last week.

This committee has heard stories of families whose babies have had their brains damaged for their entire lives by PFAS chemicals.