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We know Russia has become increasingly aggressive toward the United States and our allies.

I look forward to working together with you to maintain our strong bipartisan consensus on the importance of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and the need for continued U.S. leadership on nuclear non-proliferation.

Do you see the reforms helping with the gerrymandering aspect so that you don't draw in Beverly Hills along with maybe one or two blocks that are distressed?

As we have listened to some of the reforms, I just wonder why we sell ourselves so cheap, putting aside present governmental challenges. This is a great country to come to, a great country to invest in.

I think it is very important that this committee looks to improving distressed areas and creating jobs in all areas, both urban and rural, and I hope we can do this together.

This task was made no less difficult by the announcement this week that the President will be submitting a budget request that proposes a $54 billion cut to domestic programs.

I am here today on behalf of my constituents of northwest Indiana and our Nation to advocate for a fiscal year 2018 budget that does not allow for significant reductions in Federal funding for investments in infrastructure and particularly…

The Chinese Government has taken steps to more severely restrict, and in some cases block, U.S. think tanks, non-governmental organizations, media outlets, and Internet companies from operating freely in China.

It is also good to be here with my former colleague on the House side, Mr. Green.

The military will lead the fight against terrorism in the battlefield, but it needs strong civilian partners in the battle against drivers of extremism--lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness.

We need money, sufficient financial resources. We also need personnel, so we need to nominate appropriate personnel.

I will do my best to work to try to find out if we can get that number, but I need first to find out about why we can't get it.

But the 702 is such a valuable tool regarding what foreign bad people are trying to do to Americans that I think the intelligence community feels very strongly about it.

This is such a critical tool, I think it deserves full transparency to the level that we can while still protecting sources and methods and classified information.

The level of oversight here is all three branches of government, and it's significant to try to secure those privacies.

702 is designed to go after foreign bad guys. It's lawful collection.

Finding that balance so that we don't take away private rights and at the same time use the necessary tools to determine what the bad guys are trying to do, that's important.

We want to do everything we can to make sure those private rights are secure.