I think there’s three really key takeaways from. This first it’s a very simple one, and that’s how deeply, personally involved, President Trump, was in all of this -- meetings, in phone calls, and contacts, Oval Office, he was neck deep in…

I think their play was make Mitch take us as close to a debt limit crisis as we can to see if the democrats fold. And when we didn’t, they realize that a global economic meltdown led by a U.S. debt limit crisis was going to blow them up…

I know FEMA ducked because a lot of the reason for the inaccuracy was that they would have to bake in climate change, and there are very powerful forces that want to punish anybody who talks about climate change.

It is annoying as hell to fund FEMA and also have the State of Rhode Island have to pay for its own mapping because FEMA mapping isn't accurate.

The Administration's refusal to answer these questions has created tremendous unease among many Americans, and that is unacceptable.

President Biden owes it to the people he was elected to serve to address these concerns without further delay.

I stand with our U.S. veterans in support of welcome fully vetted Afghan SIV holders to our country.

How is the Department supporting and empowering CISA to ensure it can bring on the cybersecurity talent it needs?

I want to talk a moment about my REDUCE Act, which is the act to reduce plastic pollution, of which we have a lot. Humans have created 8 billion tons of plastic, and it is all over the place. It is in our water. It is in our rivers. It is…

I certainly hope so. It is a vital mission.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I commend the chairman for his strong leadership on cybersecurity issues and in support of this act before us today. This bill, the House companion of which I sponsored with Representatives Matsui…

How will we keep our country safe?

How can we better train and equip partner forces?

In my view all TSA is doing by shrouding its cybersecurity directives in secrecy is denying itself the benefit and the ability to improve these directives through the feedback of the largest cybersecurity community.

I want to begin also by thanking you for your work on cybersecurity at TSA, specifically for your release of two pipeline security directives in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline incident.

for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…

we have failed in that mission.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll. (Mr. BOOKER assumed the Chair.)