We must ensure the Marine Corps makes good use of these scarce resources.

Unfortunately, the budget request before us today falls short of that goal as it continues to finance near-term readiness at the expense of modernization and infrastructure.

Mr. President, I rise in praise of Majority Leader Harry Reid. He said the following: My friend from Texas . . . is like the schoolyard bully. He pushes everyone around and is losing, and instead of playing the game according to the rules…

Mr. President, the Transition Assistance Program, TAP, provides training to servicemembers regarding veteran benefits, job search skills, pre-separation counseling, resume writing, how to prepare for interviews, and other transition…

Now, if I heard you correctly in your testimony, you said that two-thirds of the time when you respond to a company that has said, 'We have been hacked,' they had no idea that they had been hacked until some Government agency warned them…

I think we can make some progress on your capabilities and authorities and safeguards in taking out these botnets.

I look forward to working with you on your legislation. I think it is a very valuable thought.

There are really two problems. One is that even the high performers remain vulnerable to breach by very highly qualified and persistent attackers.

China is using its computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. diplomatic, economic, and defense industrial base sectors.

I have spoken to both of them about this problem and about the concern that I have that you guys are good scouts.

If you detect a note of impatience from myself and from Senator Graham, it comes with the recognition that you are parts of very, very large bureaucracies that do not always move with great alacrity.

we need to have our Eliot Ness moment on this and get ready to put the resources into this problem set.

These innovations have been accompanied by new threats to our prosperity, to our privacy, to our intellectual property, to our very national security.

I would ask you for your commitment to work with us in drafting appropriate legislation that will allow you to have more authority and proper safeguards.

I will accept Senator Graham's invitation or suggestion that we try to come up with something on visas, perhaps in the framework of the immigration bill that is now pending.

Senator Graham and I came very close to having a bipartisan agreement on a cyber bill.

if you are looking at a company, it is in one of two categories: It either has been hacked and knows it, or it has been hacked and does not know it.

Mr. President, let me thank the distinguished Senator from Louisiana for his hard work, along with Chairman Boxer, to get us to this point, which I think is a very auspicious point with a very bipartisan bill on the floor and with the…