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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

My mind is racing, but I think prudence dictates no response.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

There have to be consequences, otherwise everybody is going to come after us, not just Russia, but North Korea, Iran, and terrorist organizations.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

Part of the problem also is we tend to want to keep secret what we can do when, in reality, a secret deterrent is not a deterrent.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

Right now, we are not imposing much in the way of consequences.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

If all we do is try to patch networks and defend ourselves, we will ultimately lose.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

I think you fellows understated one important point, and I do not understand why the representative from the White House is not here because I think he has a reasonable story to tell.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 18, 2017

I want to just associate myself with the comments and questions that were made by Senator Inhofe and I think Senator Shaheen about open source software and some of the policy discussions we are having here.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

I think I want to emphasize that, because there's a grave danger.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

You need an IG to look at this and shine that flashlight, shine that light on those activities

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 16, 2017

I want to emphasize the importance of that, because if you look back over the past 50 years, many of our foreign policy disasters were based upon skewed intelligence, based upon the desires of the policymakers, whether it was the Bay of…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Oct 16, 2017

One of the committee's top priorities is to make sure that each of the intelligence agencies is doing everything that it can to minimize the risk posed by insider threats.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Oct 16, 2017

One of the issues that really troubles me is the lack of transparency in the system.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Oct 16, 2017

There wasn't any investment in R and D that would justify that kind of increase.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Oct 16, 2017

We looked at Turing, we looked at Valeant, and what we found was a pattern of certain, what I call, hedge fund pharma companies buying the rights to a drug and then, overnight, increasing the cost by as much as literally 5,000 percent in…

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Oct 16, 2017

Last year, the Senate Aging Committee did an extensive investigation into the spiraling cost increases of certain prescription drugs.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Oct 5, 2017

Well, I think it is important too because that is a benefit that is hard to quantify, but if you add the transportation costs and the energy that is used--I like the idea of stabilizing energy prices in Maine and also stabilizing the…

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