Cedric Richmond

This lack of leadership makes us vulnerable.

Let's be clear: This is nothing short of a threat to our National security.

Let me first thank the Chairman for holding this hearing because our Nation faces an evolving array of cyber threats and it is crucial that we have a robust, talented cybersecurity work force.

It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.

We need to start to do in this Congress is just stop looking at things as simply about spending.

The FN57, which is a hand gun which will go through body armor... it is strictly a killing gun.

We have to have an honest conversation about what people on the streets can buy and whether there is a need for it.

I think Sovereign citizens are a scourge on this country and I think that it is not covered by the media the way it should be.

I just do not see the logic in basically giving an occupancy guarantee or a guarantee or profit or break-even point to a private industry that wants to engage in this business.

I authored a law last year that required DHS to create such a strategy and submit it to Congress.

The Russian attacks this past year on our democratic processes and political institutions are a salient reminder of the damage state adversaries, like Russia, can inflict.

Every dollar we spend now on incarceration actually makes the country less safe.

Many of us on both sides of the aisle believe that we've gotten past the point of diminishing returns in terms of incarceration.

In Louisiana, we incarcerate more people per capita than anywhere in the world--not the United States, the world.

Hacking-back is a form of digital vigilantism.

New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) opposes proposals to authorize active cyber defense (also known as 'hacking-back') because they threaten to undermine cybersecurity rather than enhance it, and may result in harming innocent…

Cybersecurity issues dominated the 2016 election. From the security of Secretary Clinton's server, to Vladimir Putin ordering cyber attacks on U.S. election systems, to WikiLeaks publishing the private emails of prominent Democratic…

While I share the President's desire to better protect critical infrastructure, directing the Pentagon to take on cybersecurity in the private sector would represent a radical departure from how the Government manages cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity issues dominated the 2016 election, from the security of Secretary Clinton's server to Vladimir Putin ordering cyber attacks on the U.S. election systems.

I find it appalling, disgraceful, and dangerous that Steve Bannon, a white supremacist and the architect of the ban, is on the National Security Council.

To have a living legend like John Lewis handled in such a fashion is beyond the pale.

The Senate's duty to provide advice and consent to Presidential nominees is a fundamental component of American democracy.

I have no other speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, my bill, H.R. 5391, would help verify that DHS carefully prioritizes research and development projects to actually close identified vulnerability gaps in the…

In my community and communities of color and with elected officials, there seems to be two standards: one for low-level elected officials and then one for other people.

Let me just quickly put the quote that--the great quote that I made in context.