Richard Blumenthal

Not in the least because they have spent $6 million to hire Cambridge Analytica as a consultant, as an agent, in that capacity.

The president has called the special counsel's investigation and the investigation of the Judiciary Committee into that meddling and Trump collusion, alleged collusion with it as a hoax.

There's no question according to the intelligence community, that there was Russian interference.

It is significant because it demonstrates evidence of potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian interference.

That is exactly right. It is not infrequent in class action cases and not infrequent in individual cases where a plaintiff is willing to persist and takes it, as a matter of principle, that he will go to the nth degree legally and spend…

But essentially space is lawless right now.

I think these answers have been very illuminating.

I'm concerned about some of the reports that we've seen from the intelligence community and other sources that Russia and China and perhaps even terrorist organizations are pursuing a range of anti-satellite technology.

We are complicit in destroying an American industry if we fail to fund the research that enables the law and the Councils to keep pace with the effects of climate change.

The budget that has been sent to us by President Trump cuts resources for exactly this kind of research.

I wholeheartedly support additional resources.

I am just asking whether these quotas--and maybe it is the system, maybe it is the councils--reflect the best scientific information available?

You have problems because they cannot take advantage of new data as quickly as the data is available.

I will take by your silence that you say, 'No, they are not.'

This quota system is Byzantine, outdated. It has failed to adapt to the movement of fish stocks.

Human trafficking continues to be a problem in the seafood industry.

The United States still imports 90 percent of the fish we eat. That is absolutely astonishing and appalling.

Mr. Rapuano, while Russia's targeting of servicemembers for intelligence is not new, personal smartphones provide significantly more knowledge about a person than was easily accessible in the past.

What is being done to protect our servicemembers and counter Russia's intrusions? What are you doing to educate our servicemembers?

DHS strongly supports this much-needed effort.

DHS banned Moscow-affiliated company Kaspersky Labs software products and services from being used by all government agencies.

What concrete steps have been taken to fortify our election systems? What will be done differently for the 2018 elections?

I agree that it is an international problem with international solutions. But we provide the main solution.

This is a topic that I think ought to be front and center for the administration and for the Congress.

Tough rhetoric must be supported by tough action and practical measures.