We have to develop that level of sophistication so that we know when we're being misled.

A new type of war has emerged in which armed warfare has given up its decisive place in the achievement of the military and political objectives of war to another kind of warfare: information warfare.

It is very clear that Russian activities on your social media platforms go far beyond the paid political ads that appeared last year.

This year's intelligence authorization bill includes a provision that I drafted with Senator Manchin and Senator Lankford.

If you are confirmed and if our provision does become law, do you commit to faithfully reporting the information required by this provision?

if a U.S. person is in contact with a foreign target of Section 702 collection, some of their communications could be collected incidentally.

Colleges can continue to challenge students' views and perspectives while also doing everything we can to put the safety of students and staff and faculty first.

By beginning this conversation, we can start to once again push hate groups back into the margins of society.

This conversation has to include a discussion about the responsibility of community leaders and college administrators to use their own voices to speak out against hate and refuse to normalize racist or otherwise bigoted viewpoints.

I hope, as we are working on the rebuilding of the Puerto Rican grid, we can be thinking to the future instead of building a 20th century grid

I want to apologize to you and the witnesses. Speaking of technology, there is no effort made whatsoever around here to schedule hearings in any kind of coordinated way.

Ultimately this is the responsibility of the White House, and I hope and believe that it will be implemented in short order.

If you're independent minded and willing to take your own position on particular issue and try to reach out and solve problems, that can cost you your seat politically, and that's a dangerous place for us to be in.

So far the Russians aren't paying any price for what they did to our country last year, and they should.

Thank you all very much for being here and being a service to our country. We very much appreciate it.

can you assure me now and everybody else on this Committee that this new Choice Program going forward is going to be able to fix this bill-paying problem?

There are plans for a House companion bill to S. 1611 to be introduced in the near future by Representative Bruce Poliquin.

I don't mind making house calls and I will continue to do it to put pressure wherever it needs to be to get our hospitals paid.