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I want to be able to have the flexibility and mobility with those agents to move Border Patrol agents in areas that we have already identified as low risk.

So if that is already in place, why are we looking at this bill to develop another plan?

Yes, I came to the floor today to support the Cruz amendment. Does the Senator from Oklahoma still wish to speak?

The time of the gentleman has expired, and I agree with the last point that the gentleman from Michigan has made since the Internet is completely internationalized and knows no boundaries, either for doing good or breaking the law.

I raised concerns about one provision in the proposed law, and that was the mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes of damaging political critical infrastructure computers.

So I would like to thank all of the witnesses for appearing today, for being brief in the answers to your questions so that we Republicans can go listen to what the President has to say.

I think we are going to be talking about this issue a lot more as legislation is developed. I disagree with that conclusion.

By limiting fees, or eliminating contingency fees, or cutting off other sources of funding to allow individuals to hold their own in a case against corporations with seemingly endless resources, many of the proposals we will hear will, in…

I suppose we could have sent an army of inspectors armed with tickets books to enforce the law, but I am not sure how Ms. Milito's organization would feel about that.

I want to join the Chairman in welcoming our witnesses, and I look forward to their testimony.

I applaud the President's resolve to work with industry to better resolve our critical infrastructure.

We are not meeting here because we are worried about individuals breaching terms of service.

As in every area of crime policy, public safety demands that we engage in level-headed efforts to identify and implement comprehensive evidence-based solutions, and I hope we can do that in this case.

This Committee has heard a lot of testimony on mandatory minimums. They have been found to waste the taxpayers' money, do nothing about crime, and often result in sentences that are violative of common sense.

I think that was one of the things that kind of bogged us down last time, when we tried to pass a cybersecurity bill.

I'm new to the Senate, new to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, but, back in my House service, I had the opportunity to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where I started to become more aware, and…