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The next Pearl Harbor is going to be cyber.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it very much. Although I do believe, sir, that jobs are more important than counting people, we will use the full authority of our office to help our workers at the Madison Mill to make sure that we do…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 3, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $44,000,000)''. Page 6, line 20, after the dollar amount…

We know and we heard from Dr. Akers today that individuals who complete their college career are going to have lifetime earnings that are far higher than those with just a high school degree.

There is no free lunch, Mr. Hochberg, everybody knows that.

If we win a town in Syria and lose 10,000 kids in France or Belgium or Florida or Ohio, that's not victory.

If we can work with other parties, particularly Russia, to move Assad off the stage, then you've got an Arab army, a Muslim army, in Syria.

We can't wait years for Assad to leave and we turn the guns of the opposition and the Syrian army on ISIL.

We've got to find a strategy that allows us to move Assad aside in some way, working with the Russians, if necessary, or the Iranians, if necessary, because he's the irritant that's keeping this thing stirred up.

We're not going to defeat ISIS with just airpower. Everybody knows that.

A strategy that ignores Assad... I just think in--I'm--I think we now need to recognize that that's not a logical strategy.

I consider this extremely grave, a grave issue, because if we don't have reliable intelligence, as policymakers, and if the President doesn't have reliable intelligence, we can't make good policy.

I want to submit for the record an extraordinary speech by Robert Gates in 1992, when he was head of the CIA, on the danger of the politicization of intelligence.

I really think you need to rethink a strategy about a safe zone, a no-fly zone, some protection from Assad's barrel bombs.

Assad and ISIS are evil twins. ISIS largely came into existence in reaction to Assad.

It makes the ISIS look invincible and more powerful, and that's--helps in their recruiting, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Which only exacerbates the sectarian conflict, which makes ISIS look good to the Sunni chiefs in Anbar.

The application has had unintended consequences that I think we have to get after now.