Mr. President, I rise today to reflect on how we can do what we so often say we want to do here in the Senate, and that is to help grow our American economy, to help create jobs for people from our home States and from all across our…

General Alexander, head of the NSA, has said it's around $400 billion a year.

Sophisticated cyber thieves are stealing our ideas, our intellectual property.

I'd like to go back a bit in time with each of you, and go back to when the Senate--particularly Senators Lieberman, Collins, Rockefeller, myself, Feinstein--offered the earlier version of our legislation, our comprehensive legislation.

As you know, we changed it so that--we came back and said, 'Well, why don't we say that, for critical infrastructure, the best practices would be, not mandated, but we'd ask the industries--the owners, the operators of the critical…

What we have to do is what's in the best interests of the nation.

America's economy and our national security are under attack.

the stakes are high--and summon the political will to do what's best for America.

The war that's occurring today is a war that's occurring in cyberspace.

I think, generally, it's been very positive.

I'm highly disappointed that OMB didn't release the FISMA report.

No, I think it's an incentive for finishing the work that we began in earnest in the last Congress.

The reason the bill didn't go through the Senate is because there's a disagreement on the liability protections for business and industry.

It's--what you've laid out, here, this framework, suggests to me that each time--it's the third major proposal, here--each time, it's been changed; and each time, it's been changed to reflect, maybe the legitimate concerns, or maybe not so…

Mr. President, the Founders of our country, committed to justice and fairness for all its citizens and in establishing a structure that would make this country uniquely strong as a democracy, gave us three coequal branches of our…

I think all of us are on notice that there is probably the single greatest widespread theft in human history going on at the moment, and it really does have a negative and cumulative impact.

I share the frustration and concern expressed by many other Senators about transparency on targeted killings.

should there be a change in the status of the Voting Rights Act, Section 5 in particular, I would love to work with you.