Ted Lieu

One of the proposals is to increase funding and salaries to recruit and retain talented cyber professionals.

Earlier this year it was revealed there was a flaw known as the Signaling System No. 7 flaw in our telephone networks.

It always struck me as odd when we go on these codels abroad, we get all these briefings on don't take your smartphones...

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Carter stated that encryption was absolutely critical to the Department of Defense in terms of protecting cybersecurity.

He also stated that he opposed back doors that would weaken encryption. Do you agree with that as well?

And I just want to make sure, the Department's view is that we need to move to stronger encryption, not weaker encryption. Is that correct?

This bill to me is dangerous because it does exactly the opposite. For the first time it is actually taking one particular religious belief of one religion and elevating it to secular law.

America is great because we are not a theocracy, and you have seen the dangers of theocracies today.

That is why when Barney Frank took an oath of office to be a Member of Congress, and when members of this committee took an oath of office, we took an oath to the Constitution, not the Bible.

Director Comey has a reputation for applying the law fairly and equally regardless of politics.

There is just the strongest whiff of hypocrisy going on here.

You would agree that our nuclear forces are pretty darn important?

Just for the record, I find that statement from the Foreign Minister bizarre.

So if you were to believe what China is saying, it would be in the middle of his remodel he just decided to up and leave and go to China, and stay there; right?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I would like to thank the U.S. State Department for doing that.

Do you believe he was making these statements freely or voluntarily?

I support incorporating social media into Federal background investigations.

I've gone to a number of national security events and briefings, and I think it's not a secret that our national security establishment looks very nondiverse.

I wrote a letter signed by over 40 Members of Congress asking the Department of Justice to investigate.

The one fact that was the same among all these cases is the defendants looked like me.

Are Federal employees, when they're given training on the insider threat program and how to report, are they given that training about race and ethnicity playing no part?

You don't actually set the rates for your products, correct?

If you actually set your products at market rates, you would be getting a lot more revenue. Isn't that correct? Potentially?

I think there needs to be a systemic fix.