there are legal impediments to doing that, right, and that is a harm to the ability to secure our Nation's networks.

We were on the path to being more secure, and I think the work that this committee and others in Congress can do might get us there by 2012, but we are not there yet.

I think we are on the cusp of being able to make that leap.

I think if we don't give DHS more authority, we will not succeed at this, and I think CFATS might be a useful model to think about.

It is not secure now.

As an individual more vulnerable? Yes. But as a Nation, is our critical infrastructure more vulnerable? Not as much.

But they are not based on good science, and the absence of that good science profoundly impacts and affects real people.

That, to me, is discriminatory and should not be an allowed practice.

That is not where you cut services in a time of recession.

Let me first begin with the administration by expressing my disappointment in the collapse of the negotiations over the 10-year tax cut deal.

Madam Secretary, thank you for being with us.

In ancient times I had the chance to chair the committee for a short period.