Mr. Chairman, how much time remains on both sides? The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from California has 20\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Washington has 14 minutes remaining.

As the title of today's hearing suggests, our communications networks are part of the backbone of our Nation's critical infrastructure.

Thank you to all of the witnesses. Excellent testimony.

I continue to have really grave concerns stemming from my 8 years that I just recently completed at the House Intelligence Committee about the implications of foreign-controlled telecommunications infrastructure companies providing…

As I understand, one way to prevent potential botnet activity is to isolate and block IP addresses that pose a threat.

I want to thank the chairman for the spirit of cooperation around this issue.

Thank you, Mr. Roe, for yielding. I thank you and I thank our colleague, Congresswoman Christensen, for taking this Special Order today so that we can sing the praises of a great man, our colleague, dear friend, precious person, Donald…

There are very few people that you can say 'someone like Donald Payne,' because he was exceptional and unique.

The House has lost a distinguished friend and a distinguished colleague in the gentleman from New Jersey.

He is always a source of strength to us, putting in perspective the fragility of life.

It seems to me that this directed energy issue is extremely important, has extraordinary potential.

It seems to me that we are shorting an extremely important program in the directed energy that many members of your subcommittee are interested in.

We are all so sad, and we are going to miss him, but we also know that the service that he gave to this country... is unmatched by any Member of Congress.

That whole point is that we could potentially change outcomes using further analysis.

My first question to you, and the most important question for me in this hearing is, could money solve this problem statistically?

The jury is still out on the answer.

You made a statement that you support specifically the mandate.

Just because taxes are paid doesn't mean those who use over and above that get a free ride.