Richard B. Nugent: “I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I would like to yield 2 minutes to the…”

How are we protecting ourselves against an insider attack that could obviously cripple us if that information got out to our adversaries?

People forget that there is actually flesh and blood, parents and children, of those young men and women that are serving this country. They forget there are real people in those uniforms. And so that is why this is so important.

One of the recommendations I believe from that panel was also to invest more in medical countermeasures. Are we doing that? Are we investing more or are we staying status quo?

I absolutely appreciate the chairman doing that and would love to work with him.