I am, too, saddened by the loss of Felipe and Jakelin. Both children and a teenager died while in the custody of CBP, or shortly after entering custody, which is totally unacceptable.

I support a Cyber Director, as Congressman Langevin and my good friend Congressman Ruppersberger both have reminded me over the years how I was just wrong about this.

If the Majority requested and shared human tissue samples of a deceased child just to advance political narrative, it would mark an appalling new low for this committee.

I think what that strategy was meant to do in 2018 for sure was bring us to a better place about coordination and understanding that our adversaries are using all the nation-state power they can bring to bear.

I think that there have been some studies done that a lot of Black entrepreneurs don't get loans...

Further, getting to the bottom of those 2 deaths is something that this committee has worked together on.

That's the scary part.

We need someone who is coordinating our cyber defenses at a time when all of these weaknesses and vulnerabilities have been repeatedly demonstrated by different attacks.

When you pay it, guess what? More people are deciding they want to get into the business and try and extract you from your money, and that's the problem we're running into.

The idea that any President--Democrat, Republican, Trump or otherwise--would be willing to give up a significant portion of authority I think is going to be a challenge.

What they're trying to do is create chaos. They don't care. They don't like Democrat Americans any more than they like Republican Americans.

The nature of espionage is changing dramatically.

Every major adversary--China, Russia, North Korea, Iran--are ramping up the use of cyber because they know it has low consequence and high impact.

Those people, respectfully, disregard history, as Congress has helped to guide White House structure in the past when the moment demanded it.

So, Chairman Rogers, can you describe the potential effect a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure like this could have in the United States?

Security is, I think, a very important discussion Congress is going to have to weigh in on.

If we don't have something that doesn't expand Government but focuses our cybersecurity efforts, we are going to be in for a long run.

I want to keep an open mind on the merits of any proposal to improve our national cybersecurity.