Cybersecurity, I think, is really one of the most pressing national security issues, challenges for our country.

I am also disappointed that my Republican colleagues have not shown any interest in this bill especially since 20 to 50 billion connected devices are expected to be in use by the year 2020.

As Representative Eshoo noted, Government does instant response well, but we need to be doing more to focus on prevention and collaboration before an event actually occurs.

I think what I would like to do in writing, because I don't have time for it, is to ask each one of you so you can be prepared for it, what is your top line recommendation to the subcommittee relative to cybersecurity in our country?

There is a little bit of, if I might suggest this, politically cross-dressing that is going on here, because the Congress ripped away all privacy protections on the internet.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, and I urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question so that the House can vote on my bipartisan legislation, the…

I want to compliment my colleagues that are sponsoring the four bills today for their work because I think that they are offering a good legislation.

I believe that this subcommittee, and under your leadership, Madam Chairwoman, that we have a hearing, an oversight hearing, with the FCC.

Both my colleagues, Congresswoman Matsui and our ranking member, Mr. Doyle, and myself have sent a letter to the chairman of the full committee and yourself to request that the subcommittee hold a hearing to examine the proposed…

Broadcasters are going to have the ability to use devices such as GPS information to geotargeting emergency alerts.

I have heard some allege that the FCC's net neutrality protections could cause emergency alerts to get stuck behind some other traffic on the internet during an emergency.

I think that today is yet another sad day here in the House of Representatives for the people of our country, because what is being brought forward is the same bill that we debated and that went down because of the weight of the problems…