"I just see us in a competition, you know, and I know China right now has full spectrum surveillance of its entire population."
"There is not a good ending to that story if we allow that to happen."
"I see a lot more danger there than I think I have heard represented on this panel."
"We have a lot of restraints on us that other governments do not, and I am just very worried that we are going to forfeit any opportunity."
"In December 2023, the Biden Administration finalized a rule to ensure that large-scale Federal construction projects have PLAs in place."
"I dare say, that is what the Republican leadership is involved in in this Committee."
"I'm old enough to remember a Republican President who stood up--stood up--to Russian dictators, not sucked up to Russian dictators."
"The only reason the recent Speaker got elected is because he had the distinct quality that no one really knew him."
"In June, the House Republican leadership brought us to the verge of a catastrophic default on our national debt."
"I wanted to just get some of your thinking behind that on how big does a fintech firm need to be before they would come under this reporting."
"And now there was a two or 3 weeks ago, we had a North Korean--a similar operation where a North Korean connected attackers injected, again, malicious code into a widely distributed software component..."
"I don't want to pretend that this Congress is functioning, because it is not."