I also rise today to announce the next Granite Stater of the Month, a young woman who is well known among people in the New Hampshire State House and across the Granite State. Cassandra Levesque, an 18-year-old from Barrington, is an…

in my home State of New Hampshire and in communities across the Nation, there is no greater public health and safety challenge than the fentanyl, heroin, and opioid crisis. Everywhere I go, I hear stories by people affected by this crisis…

It's a real example of the work that so many families are doing to try to prevent this from happening to anyone else.

We are so grateful for your work.

These new dollars need to be prioritized for states like my own, New Hampshire, which has been terribly and disproportionately hit by this crisis.

We will ultimately need far more funding beyond this measure over the years to come to truly address this crisis.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, in New Hampshire and all across this country, people are dying every day. Communities have been devastated by the heroin and opioid epidemic. Last year, we lost nearly 500 people…

Do we consider cyberattacks as potential weapons of mass destruction?

We cannot arrest our way out of this. We have to do everything to get out of this.

Secretary Rapuano, could you explain why DOD does not require companies that it contracts with to disclose instances where they have shared source code with foreign countries?

I would appreciate that. Thank you.

I do have a hard time thinking that a name change really does all that, and I understand that you are saying it is more than a name change.

I am here with Senator Nelson, Senator Whitehouse, and Senator Cardin because I share their concerns about the rising chorus of partisan attacks, not only on Special Counsel Robert Mueller but also on the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

Secretary Rapuano, if DOD does not ask companies directly about their interactions with foreign governments overseas how can we be sure that hostile governments do not obtain source codes and other data that may give them access to U.S…

Should we? I notice that the Nuclear Posture Review contemplated that there might be situations in which the massive use of cyberattacks could result in, potentially, a nuclear response.

Isn't part of the issue with cyber is that we don't really have a well-defined body of law and response, proactively--'response' is the wrong term--that we don't have a proactive way to address the potential of cyberattacks, and that…

You were talking--Senator Heinrich, earlier, raised the question of ISIS and whether they continue to have the capacity to inflict major damage through WMD.

the FY18 NDAA contains a provision that directs the President to establish a national policy with respect to matters pertaining to cyberspace, cybersecurity and cyber warfare.