Mary Landrieu

I appreciate both leaders for giving some time for this. Several of us have been working all week on a package of amendments that were bipartisan and cleared by both Senator Grassley's and Senator Hatch's staff. We appreciate their work so…

I thank the Senator from Arizona, and I will show more patience. Everyone on the floor is showing a lot of patience with this very complicated bill, but I have asked privately and I will ask publicly for the process of…

Before the Senator from Texas leaves the floor, could I ask a question unrelated to his speech? I am sorry I didn't get to hear most of it. I stepped off the floor temporarily. The Senator has been so active on the debate on immigration, I…

Is there a physical copy of the list you have presented to the Democrats? Could it be submitted to the Record?

I wish to address the leader and the managers of the bill, both Senator Sessions and Senator Leahy. I know there are about 100 or so other amendments pending, and I know we have been sort of held up the last couple of days, but there are…

This week, Senator, is the 50th National Small Business Week that we have recognized at the Federal Government.

It gives us an opportunity to really shine the spotlight on the great entrepreneurial spirit of America, which is a model for the world.

I offer this amendment. It is a technical amendment, three technical but important changes to the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. Senator Coats, Senator Blunt, and Senator Klobuchar have helped lead this effort. I have explained it numerous…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 428A Russell Senate Office building to hold a roundtable entitled ``Sequestration: Small Business…

I would like to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on June 17, 2013, at 5:30 p.m. in the Mansfield Room of the Capitol (S-207) to hold a markup on Committee legislation. Committee on Small Business…

Unfortunately, the report falls short of providing Congress an understanding of the DHS and National Guard's capacity to respond to a cyber attack jointly.

U.S. Cyber Command says there are 250,000 attacks on U.S. Government networks every hour, 6 million a day.

I have written you several times about it. I am going to write again to clarify their role.

I am so proud of you for being in charge of this because your demeanor through this whole hearing has, once again, proven to me that you are the right person for this job.

I have every confidence in this chairman to provide leadership.

I do not think there is a Member of the Senate in either party that would question her integrity on this issue.

We are not in a scrimmage. We are in a war.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship will meet on June 13, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 428A, Russell Senate Office Building to hold a markup of pending legislation. ____________________

I am a co-sponsor of the Cyber Warrior Act of 2013, which requires the creation of National Guard Cyber Response Teams in every State.

How ready can you be if you have not practiced together? That is the question. And it is really a problem.

I am going to submit my final question for the record and that is about the role of the National Guard, Mr. Chairman, in our cyber fight.

I do not want to sit here as a member of this committee like some people did in the 1940s and closed their eyes to what was going on in Germany.

I think that she made an excellent point earlier about really focusing, Secretary, on the academies.

I just can't impress upon the both of you how critical this is.

I mean, our States are serving as platforms for the production. Without the south Louisiana, Texas, there would be no way for the Federal Government to access resources that are clearly ours.