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I am shocked that you would suggest state legislators have more courage than members of Congress.

Today, our subcommittee is holding this hearing on the state of our nation's transportation infrastructure and potential funding and financing options to help meet the long-term needs of our nation.

There needs to be a more robust partnership between what the government, which cannot necessarily dominate this.

I think one thing that the government can do--and General Clapper mentioned this in his agency--is red teaming the dickens out of this.

I was really struck, Admiral, by your statement that 65 or 70 percent of the attacks are essentially preventable.

I think the other piece that is very important that you have talked about is digital literacy. I think it needs to start in the third grade.

It has got to start with the direction from the President that we are going to have a policy.

In my view, the major impediment is the structure which is so cumbersome and confusing and overlapping and dispersed that that produces cumbersome, overlapping, and dispersed policy.

Just a rough calculation, for the cost of one jet aircraft, the Russians can hire 4,000 hackers. I mean, what the Russians did in our elections was warfare on the cheap.

I think the United States must take the leadership here if for no other reason than the dominance of the United States in the technology and as much of the world's infrastructure that originates here or passes through this country.

That gets to my point about it has to be public. People have to know what the rules are.

Well, I don't think we have five years. This is the longest windup for a punch in the history of the world.

I think we've got to have the capacity to deter.

If you're right, that technically we can't defend ourselves, then deterrence is the only answer.

What bothers me, Mr. Chairman, if there is an attack--and I don't think it's if, I think it's when--and we go home, and I go home to Maine and say, well, we couldn't really defend ourselves because we had four committees that couldn't get…

To me, the most chilling finding of the board was--and this is a direct quote-- 'The unfortunate reality is that for at least the next decade, the offensive cyber capabilities of our most capable adversaries are likely to far exceed the…

I understand that President Bush forbade Karl Rove from even going to National Security Council meetings, let alone being on it.

You shouldn't be welcome at these meetings; you should be part of these meetings.