Reliable data, Senator Capito and I just passed our bill out of the Commerce Committee this morning

this idea that we have no rules in place at all while we see this increase in digital trade and digital business I think is a real problem

the more that we can facilitate the movement of data across borders, the more that we can have an open internet system

This is such an important topic, digital trade, with 95 percent of our potential customers outside of our borders.

it should be both.

I want you to guarantee me the IG will immediately have access to that Office of Accountability Whistleblower Protection database and any other information it needs to audit that program today.

I know no one intends to fail, but I have seen it.

Mr. President, I thank Mr. Merkley, the Senator from Oregon, for his leadership and his calling attention to the tragedy that has been going on right on our border. I rise today to join my colleagues to express my deep concern about the…

I was pleased Senator Shaheen and I wrote a letter asking if any of the top three voting machine companies have been asked to share the source code or other sensitive details with Russian entities.

I introduced the Improving Rural Call Completion and Reliability Act with Senators Thune and Tester.

That is what I would consider a stupid mistake.

Last August, we heard about 1.8 million in Chicago voter records and potentially sensitive information was being exposed.

Senator Lankford and I, our bill would expand the Technical Guidelines Development Committee's mission and membership to provide additional cyber security expertise.

Commissioner Hicks, several of the election officials at our last hearing complimented the EAC's efforts to quickly distribute the $380 million for election security funding from March.

Because of the portion of the cloud they put it on?

Do you think it is responsible to sell paperless election systems in 2018, given what we know?

the Secure Elections Act calls for states to implement audits in order to confirm election results.

Yes, not the fault of our election person. All right, very good.