Angus King

We need a cyber doctrine or a strategy to make our adversaries understand that they will pay a price for a cyberattack on this country.

The best defense is for the public to understand that it's happening and then they can discount it

I see a real vulnerability is voting lists and the lists that are maintained mostly at the state level.

Do you have an overall assessment of how secure the American voting system is going into 2018, which is now 4 months away?

What bothers me in your statement is the word 'offered'. The ones who are not asking for it may be the ones who need it.

To me the question that really is worth discussing is that we have a price risk and we have an infrastructure risk.

But what if I am right, for example, and we get into exports in a big way--the price of gas goes from $2.50 to $6.00, and we are in trouble in New England.

I am gravely concerned that we do not get into exports to the point where it significantly impacts domestic gas prices.

It is an honor for me to come to the meeting and join my colleague, Senator Collins in introducing Emory Rounds.

I can't find out a single point in the United States government that's in charge of solving this problem.

Whenever I hear 'whole-of-government,' I think that means 'none-of-government.'

We've got to solve it. We had testimony there are something like 950,000 security clearances in backlog.

I hope we don't lose sight of the big picture that Puerto Rico could go from a challenged electrical system to a world leader given the natural assets that the island has and solar prices have plunged 80 percent since 2010.

I want to thank you and Senator Cantwell for arranging this hearing on this important topic and acknowledge the role that, I believe, Senator Nelson played in trying to encourage us to work on and look into this problem.

I think the point you make is very important is that there is absolutely no one-size-fits-all in this area.

The grid itself, if it is there, can be the battery, to some extent.

Because when you are talking $.30 or $.40 a kilowatt-hour that gives you a lot of running room for alternatives which would look expensive maybe in Boston but are dirt cheap in Cordova, Alaska, or Isle au Haut, Maine.

But are you seeing, are tests being run? Are communities doing this? Is it happening or are we just still talking about it?

What we really need, it seems to me, is we need the private sector to come up with a rural electric system in a box that can be scaled.

It seems to me that we are in an energy revolution, and rural areas and islands are Bunker Hill.

If we achieve some kind of diplomatic breakthrough it will relieve one of the greatest pressure points in the world. It will relieve an enormous danger to our country.

Secretary of state is pure policy. And I have some concerns about Mike Pompeo's policies in terms of Iran, North Korea, things that he stated historically, climate change, things that will be important in terms of his representation of the…

Russia attacked our country in 2016. It was a -- it was a very serious deliberate sophisticated comprehensive effort to undermine our democracy. And they haven't paid any price.

She doesn't say things casually. And she is not going to look into the camera on Sunday morning and make an unequivocal statement the sanctions will come.

It's a free pass. Why would they worry about doing it again?