Mr. President, when 47 Republican Senators signed a letter sent to the Ayatollah Khomeini, it was a letter that although supposedly instructive of the constitutional provisions of the separation of government in the United States, in…

Is my understanding correct that it is the time for the minority? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is correct. There is 24 minutes remaining.

I know the Committee members would like to hear my dulcet tones but I would prefer to hear the witnesses.

We must always guard against waste, fraud, and abuse in all programs.

That is unacceptable. FirstNet will address that disparity.

I think it's essential to harden against cybersecurity because other than your everyday natural disaster, but when it's not a natural disaster, whoever is attacking us is going to be attacking us with cyber simultaneously.

I am proud to have been an early supporter of the legislation that eventually created FirstNet.

We must prioritize the needs of our first responders.

Let's remember the reason for FirstNet: To have all the first responders to be able to talk to each other without the hindrances that we've seen in the past.

Well, I've met with NIST and you're going to need to work with them. You're going to need to work with some of our intelligence agencies because the technology is so rapidly changing in these areas of the kind of sophisticated attacks that…

Mr. President, I first wish to say to the Senator from Connecticut that this Senator agrees with him. It should never come down to this. The whole purpose of that section of the Affordable Care Act is in fact to provide insurance to as…