Angus King

Absolutely. I mean and he said it himself on Friday night during the attack. If they deserve an air strike it seems to me they also deserve sanctions.

Where I come from, effort doesn't count.

I just hope it's being done at the highest possible level, because I understand there was a so-called Hackathon last summer where every State or every State that they tried, they managed to penetrate.

They don't have to change votes to win; they just have to sow lack of confidence.

I just worry. I have to say, I just have to worry that there's an overconfidence here in terms of the sophistication of our adversaries.

This problem is not being treated with the urgency that it deserves, and a deterrent strategy--because the problem now is the Russians send in this whole operation into our election system, into our states, 21 states that we know of, and…

What we saw wasn't messing around or penetrating. It was a sophisticated, thorough, comprehensive, malign, and malicious attack on our electoral system.

I mean--I don't believe we're--you're grading on a curve, man. You said it was a B. I think you're giving us too much credit.

This is an urgent matter.

Every time I hear that I think: That means none of government. I want to hear who's in charge and what they're going to do about that.

All of the patches aren't going to work if we don't have a strategy of deterrence.

This is, I believe, with the possible exception of North Korea's nuclear weapons, this is the most serious threat that our country faces today and we are not adequately dealing with it.

Weatherization is a great way of avoiding expenditures in the future.

I want to echo my colleague from Minnesota. We face situations in Maine where people have to choose between medication, heating their home and putting food on the table.

It seems to me this is an area, it's sort of new territory, if you will, where there has to be a closer relationship between the private sector and government.

The best attack is the one that doesn't occur.

Adversaries have to know they will pay a price for attacking us, whether it's cyber or kinetic.

Sanctions are important, but the question is sanctions always, by definition, occur after the attack.

I have been pressing for three years is an app.

I would hope that perhaps you could step back and do a more comprehensive view.

I think it is a creative response. It does not guarantee the funding, but it makes it likely.

The critical minerals issue because it is a serious national security issue.

It is the magnitude of the increase.

My problem is the park fee proposal. The increases are so significant.

I am just arguing for a similar decision in Maine based upon our circumstances.