Christopher Shays: “I want to just first compliment the chairman and ranking member for their excellent work on this legislation, their…”

“I want to just first compliment the chairman and ranking member for their excellent work on this legislation, their excellent work in general, and frankly the work that they have done in helping to create such a strong structure for intelligence. The Cold War is over. The world is a more dangerous place. We need to be able to not contain and react to an event; we need to be able to detect and prevent it. It means that we need very good intelligence, both intelligence directed with technology and intelligence that occurs from very good human capital. I think the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) and our incredible ranking member, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman), have done an excellent job in drafting this legislation. My compliments to both of them. They give credit to the full Congress and the work that they have done.”