I want to thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Congressman Evans, for leading this Special Order and for yielding to me, especially on a matter this important. As I reflect on the last 200 or so days in this country, I am saddened…

I stand here today, as a Member of the United States House of Representatives, embarrassed. At the same time that I am embarrassed, I am also dumbfounded. I know that there are people at home that are thinking: Why would a Member of…

Let's be clear--this is nothing short of a threat to 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.

This lack of leadership makes us vulnerable.

Are we perpetuating our own barrier by our traditional means of how we think about the workplace as opposed to what technology offers?

I think cybersecurity needs to really start to broaden its awareness of the opportunities in it and get people to invest in the mission very early on.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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…

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…

I thank my colleague, Stacey Plaskett from the Virgin Islands, for taking this assignment and making sure that the Congressional Black Caucus continues its conversation with America, and to inform people on issues that are important to us…