It is a very good idea, and I hope that what we bring forward will create some sparks and some benefits for our country.

I really appreciate your opening up the Committee to have other Members that are not part of your committee to come in and share ideas with you.

It really is a simple piece of legislation.

Has his thinking stopped from the time he was CIA director to being former and he doesn't understand encryption any longer?

America is safer, safer with unbreakable end-to-end encryption.

Once criminals know that American encryption products are open to government surveillance, what is going to stop them from using encrypted products and applications that fall outside of the jurisdiction of American law enforcement?

That is a huge allegation. So thank you.

It takes my breath away just to try and digest that.

How is it that the FBI didn't know what to do?

I think the Congress should come up with at least a floor relative to standards so that we can move that word crisis away from this.

I have no further requests for time, and I am prepared to close. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, this has been an interesting discussion on the floor this morning. For people who are tuned in, I think that I want…

I would note that the FCC chairman is not a Member of Congress. It is only Congress that can write a statute. The amendment that I offered codified--codified--that there would be no rate regulation of the Internet. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3…