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We are trying to fight a global battle with our hands tied behind our back.

I am sick and tired of going to these hearings, which I've been going to for five years, where everybody talks about cyber-attacks, and our country still does not have a policy or a doctrine or a strategy for dealing with them.

We cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists.

There is no question--we've got before us the entire intelligence community--that the Russians interfered in the election in 2016, they're continuing to do it, and they're a real imminent threat to our elections in a matter of eight or…

This is an election year in our country and it's, frankly, frustrating to me that we haven't passed legislation to help states strengthen their security of their voting systems.

It's been ridiculous, totally inaccurate. In our view, the suggestion the CIA was swindled is false.

Is this part of the Russian campaign to undermine faith in Western democracies?

There's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and it would -- we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists.

I would like from you specific suggestions about what we could do that does not compromise environmental standards but simply reflects greater efficiency in the process and timeliness.

If you get paid by a rate of return on your capital investment, that is--and I am not, this is not a criticism, it is just an economic fact of life--doesn't that encourage building rather than, for example, conserving?

So what am I missing?

I think that's something that we could do in this situation as well.

What we heard is it was really hard for them to learn to navigate the school system all over again

We have seen the number of such families soar by 24 percent over a 5-year period due to the opioid crisis

The bill would create a task force to help develop and distribute information designed to help kinship parents

I was impressed by a group of students from Fort Kent, Maine, who have developed their own program to try to help their peers avoid alcohol abuse, tobacco, and opioids.

I just want to tell you that I am just overwhelmed by your ability to take such a tragedy and turn it into something that is going to help other families avoid what you went through.

We need that information. We have been given a minimal amount of documents, most of which are not at all responsive to the request.