I very much thank Senator Blunt. Thank you for helping to contribute to the bipartisan, positive tone of our deliberations. I thank my friend, the Senator from Rhode Island, for his leadership both in today's colloquy and in pulling…

I appreciate the opportunity to speak today. I am following the Senator from the State of Colorado. My topic is also about manufacturing jobs in the United States. I thank the Senator from Colorado for coming to the Senate floor every day…

Broadly, how would you appraise the capabilities and the preparedness of State and local first responders, law enforcement, emergency management agencies, to deal with this sort of a combined attack or the emerging threats of cyber?

If there were to be standards that were negotiated--that were agreed to between industry and regulatory agencies, for an area like cyber, where the threat seems to be rapidly evolving, how would you update, routinely, those standards in a…

I happen to agree that a cyber attack of this kind would be particularly dangerous.

I was happy to join you last year in supporting the Grid Cyber Security Act.

I rise today to join the chorus of voices from our caucus who have tonight spoken to the value, to the importance of transparency in elections. Transparency, as we all know, is critical for free and fair elections and for democracy to…

There is very few issues I lose more sleep about than our cyber vulnerabilities.

I agree, since, in any of the scenarios we have been discussing, it is likely to be State and local responders who bear a lot of the responsibility, are likely to be first on scene, or likely to be leading the recovery effort.

in my view, Chairman Leahy and this Committee and the Senate made a significant step forward in aligning our patent system with the world by adopting a first-to-file system.

Thank you, Ms. Liser.

My view is that we will always do better developing exports in partnership with countries that recognizes their legitimate need to develop their own domestic technology and industries as well.