I thank the gentleman for yielding. Hopefully there will be time left over also for Mr. Chaffetz, who has worked hard on this amendment. I want to thank the chairman for working with our committee on this amendment that clarifies in the…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to my colleague and the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Chaffetz), the chairman of the subcommittee that has done so much on, in fact, cybersecurity.

Madam Speaker, in closing, I urge all Members to support the passage of this bill, H.R. 4257, as amended. I want to make one closing statement. Often we talk about cybersecurity, and people think just about the Internet. We sit here in a…

Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 4257) to amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, to revise requirements relating to Federal information security, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk…

I couldn't agree with the gentleman more. Your work with our staff has been essential. I look forward to doing exactly that, and I think we have to have that ongoing effort to get to there. I saw the ranking member's head also shaking. I…

Madam Speaker, we have a speaker on the other side for a colloquy, so I'd reserve at this time to allow him to go next.

I thank the gentleman. I do share those concerns and appreciate the gentleman's work on this. Proper organization of the executive branch is essential to the successful long-term management of technology, and particularly cybersecurity…

Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Thornberry) who coordinated so much of the work that we're doing today from multiple committees.

I thank the gentleman. And yes, we did. Your leadership on cybersecurity matters, including FISMA reform, have been essential. When you and I served on the Select Intelligence Committee, I recognized that you put more time and effort into…

Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there…

Mr. President, Senator McCain and I are introducing, by request, the Administration's proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013. As is the case with any bill that is introduced by request, we introduce this bill for…

Mr. President, for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive…

Mr. President, in 1994 and again in 2000 and 2005, the Senate took a strong, bipartisan stance against acts of domestic and sexual violence that alter the lives of far too many American families and especially American women. With the…

We are deeply troubled by the claims of the CIA's former Deputy Director of Operations Jose Rodriguez regarding the effectiveness of the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques.

Statements made by Mr. Rodriguez and other former senior government officials about the role of the CIA interrogation program in locating Usama bin Laden (UBL) are inconsistent with CIA records.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in reluctant opposition to the bill. But at the outset, I want to acknowledge the extraordinary work done by our chairman, Mike Rogers, and our ranking member, Dutch Ruppersberger…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in reluctant opposition to this rule and to the underlying bill in its current form. I greatly appreciate the nonpartisan work on the issue by Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member…

I thank the gentleman. I just want to conclude by saying I look forward to our continued work on this bill, and I appreciate the great cooperation between the chair and ranking member, and I have respect for all the members of the…