Mike Rogers

We have got some important issues to address this year. We have a budget request from the President that in some ways is among the best we have seen since he came into office.

I would like to welcome back our returning members, especially the distinguished gentleman from Tennessee, my buddy, Mr. Cooper.

I am not satisfied at all that we are doing what we need to do to try to stop it or counteract it.

We have proof that Russia and China and other Governments are attacking our country's cyber information databases?

I think we should talk about raising the cost for Russia in many dimensions, yes, sir.

The spending caps that were put on defense through the BCA are moronic and need to be gone.

It is a cash business and we should make no mistake about it. It could be an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Al-Nusra or Al-Sham that is in Syria. It could be a criminal enterprise that understands their value is a cash proposition.

There's a whole bunch of series of things that they're claiming happen to this woman that do not fit their profile, not even close.

Absolutely. It should have been smoldering, if it was new.

This is, a, very plausible and b, in both Lebanon and Jordan, it is, because of the border issues there, the large number of people from Syria coming over, the large number of refugee camps, this is absolutely plausible and that's what…

This news, this idea that ISIS is planning to kidnap westerners in Jordan and Lebanon, bring back into Syria. It would certainly be an escalation in the tactics but as I said, in the calculus of ISIS, it makes a certain amount of sense.

I'm concerned about space governance in the Department.

It's nearly impossible and the longer that Syria can -- is a recruiting tool and it is a recruiting tool.

And if you think of this, Anderson, the federal government would watch about 21 al-Qaeda affiliates. That doesn't count ISIS and other organizations but al-Qaeda affiliates about half of those have pledged support to ISIS and their…

Very concerned, Anderson. So, if you look back even with ISIS tactics just very shortly ago with -- they switch gears.

At some point, you have to recognize that there are no consequences when you do nothing.

I commend the president for acting because the intelligence showed an urgency to get in or they were going to kill this American hostage anyway.

I think you acknowledged from an earlier question, this is an area that is going to be wrought with fraud.

I disagree with you. The statue is very clear at present that these illegals who are in this country are to be removed once they are located.

Participating in Medicare and Social Security, both of which are struggling financially through solvency, to have this added burden I think is irresponsible.

Aren't these exigent circumstances?

It is only a matter of the when, not the if, that we are going to see something traumatic.

We're seeing multiple nation-states invest in those kinds of capabilities.

That's a troubling development for us.

It enables you to shut down very segmented, very tailored parts of our infrastructure that forestall the ability to provide that service to us as citizens.