I'm sure you've all heard about last week's Cyber ShockWave exercise. I watched.

Moreover, our legislation reflects the recommendations of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Blue Ribbon Report that was issued to the President.

Our legislation calls for developing a cybersecurity strategy and identifying the key roles and responsibilities of all the players.

President Obama called cyberspace a strategic national asset.

I think it should be elevated so we have that conversation, and that--more importantly, that he reports directly to the President of the United States.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to take this opportunity to commend you for your extraordinary and visionary leadership...

Too much is at stake for us to pretend that today's outdated cybersecurity policies are up to the task.

Getting increasingly sophisticated? Yes. And how do we keep pace with that sophistication?

Forcing transparency, by the way--it's a strange analogy--it's the bathing-suit test.

We have since had multiple drafts. We are trying to bring new, high-level governmental attention to developing a fully integrated, thoroughly coordinated public private partnership.

We have a lot of people out there who would do the right thing, but we shouldn't be penalizing them for doing so.

There's a whole area here that needs to be--opened up for discussion, a whole area of possible government action that's really not being addressed.

We have to, all of us, decide how to do this.

that's clearly an emphasis that we have to make.

It is my distinct privilege to join Senator Collins in introducing the President's nominee for Federal Cochair of the Northern Border Commission, Sandy Blitz.

Unfortunately, as Senator Sanders and Senator Gillibrand of this committee are all too aware, this staggering unemployment figure permeates throughout the northern tier of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Economic development in all areas of our Nation is key to our country's economic recovery and expansion.

Chairman Boxer, Senator Inhofe, and members of the committee, I am delighted to testify today on behalf of Sandy Blitz.