I think if you were to eliminate those, you would open a wide door of intellectual property theft.

a strong, reliable, and predictable IP right is paramount to incentivizing U.S. innovation and creativity.

It is amazing to me, if you think back to that language, and it has been referred to here today, that was in the 9/11 Commission report that the system was blinking red.

That is what I get. You get these assessments, but we have seen intel failures all across time.

Ambassador Sales, I want to revisit--since Representative Titus sort-of ridiculed or trivialized what you said about the terrorism risk, uncontrolled Southern Border.

I am never told why they think that. I am never shown data to indicate the numerosity of those threats versus others or the likelihood of their carrying something out.

I was glad to hear you raise the question whether an uncontrolled Southern Border poses a security risk to the United States.

I just was sitting here tallying, and I used a figure of 600,000 gotaways.

I said, thank you, Director Abizaid. Does the NCTC assess a significant threat from the historic level of uncontrolled crossing at the Southern Border?

But also, I think the American people have a right to know why so much misinformation was spread about COVID-19 in this country by President Trump.

Do you think it serves the market for an object to be viewed by the commodities regulators as a commodity and by the securities regulators as a security?

There is a lack of clarity here in the marketplace. Can you at least agree to that?

Chair Gensler, your responses to congressional inquiries have been unacceptable.

And once again, I think you are trying to hide behind things for either a lack of willingness to be candid about it, or you are trying to obfuscate your oath of office, which was, 'well and faithfully.' This committee is not happy with…

That uncertainty is bad, is it not?

your record of failures to protect investors and abuses of power make it clear that we need to restructure the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The American people want democratic access to capital, with retail investor participation.

The American people deserve to know the origins of the COVID-19 virus.