I am committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, across multiple committees, to ensure that we are setting policy that will provide the foundation for our national security agencies' threat and treat domestic…

The January 6 attack must mark a turning point.

I certainly want to thank Ranking Members Blunt and Portman and all of the members who came here together today to work in a bipartisan way.

For the past two years, I have been working to draw attention to the rise of domestic terrorism, and specifically violence driven by white supremacists.

This was a shocking assault on our democracy, and it marked one of our Nation's darkest days.

It is clear that this violent, coordinated attack was the result of a massive and historic intelligence failure.

For years, I have been raising the alarm about the growing domestic terrorism threat.

I remain concerned that our national security agencies are simply not adequately focused on domestic terrorism, which we all agree is the number one terrorist threat to our homeland.

We are also looking at China holding almost three-fourths of the world's manufacturing capacity for lithium ion battery cells.

I have worked to draw attention to the rising threat of domestic terrorism, including the rise of insidious ideologies of white supremacy, antigovernment militias, and now QAnon conspiracies.

we have all heard testimony in the last Congress. We have read the books. We have read the papers. We have heard from the experts that technology is not being incorporated fast enough and we're losing that edge to China.

Rule XXVI, paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate requires each committee to adopt rules to govern the procedure of the committee and to publish those rules in the Congressional Record not later than March 1 of the first year of…

I think it would be useful if we got together with the new leadership at the Pentagon and offered our help.

We owe it to the American people to figure out how the United States Capitol, the preeminent symbol of democracy around the world, could be overtaken by an angry, violent mob.

There is no question that there were colossal breakdowns in the intelligence gathering and security preparations leading up to the events of January 6th.

Our goal today is to begin to understand where those breakdowns and failures occurred and to determine if there are policy and structural changes Congress must make to prevent a future attack of this nature.

When President Biden visited the Kalamazoo facility last week, he called it a miracle of manufacturing. I guess that's a point that I can quickly jump in and say I agree with the President on.

Thank you, Chairwoman Johnson, for your leadership in holding this hearing.