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Angus King

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Angus Stanley King is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Maine since January 3, 2013. A member of the Independent party, King previously held the position of Governor of Maine from January 4, 1995, to January 8, 2003. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and renewable energy, often advocating for bipartisan solutions to complex problems. King is known for his moderate stance and willingness to work across party lines.

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Mar 8, 2017

I think this is our gravest sort of state-to-state danger, is misunderstanding and leading to accidental conflict.

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Mar 8, 2017

We have a seamless cooperation and agreement, arrangement, and working relationship with the Canadians in terms of NORAD?

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Mar 8, 2017

This is a place where we really are in a serious deficit situation.

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Mar 8, 2017

I believe that my part of this problem set is to provide that credible combat power in the face of North Korean provocation.

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Mar 8, 2017

I agree that we need to have that public debate sooner rather than later.

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Mar 8, 2017

The real question is what ships do we have that are ready to fight.

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Mar 8, 2017

Success is not winning. Success is learning.

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Mar 8, 2017

I urge you to set your general counsel loose on that issue.

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Mar 8, 2017

If what happened to the F-35 happens to the B-21, I am going to find you.

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Mar 8, 2017

That depends on what we are asked to do.

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Mar 8, 2017

They do not want to sit at desks. They do not want to be PowerPoint warriors.

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Mar 1, 2017

I think the other piece that is very important that you have talked about is digital literacy. I think it needs to start in the third grade.

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Mar 1, 2017

I think one thing that the government can do--and General Clapper mentioned this in his agency--is red teaming the dickens out of this.

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Mar 1, 2017

If you're right, that technically we can't defend ourselves, then deterrence is the only answer.

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Mar 1, 2017

I think we've got to have the capacity to deter.

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Mar 1, 2017

That gets to my point about it has to be public. People have to know what the rules are.

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Mar 1, 2017

In my view, the major impediment is the structure which is so cumbersome and confusing and overlapping and dispersed that that produces cumbersome, overlapping, and dispersed policy.

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Mar 1, 2017

There needs to be a more robust partnership between what the government, which cannot necessarily dominate this.

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Mar 1, 2017

I was really struck, Admiral, by your statement that 65 or 70 percent of the attacks are essentially preventable.

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Mar 1, 2017

I rise to oppose S.J. Res. 13, which is a Congressional Review Act resolution to undo the regulations which protect title X health centers. I believe this resolution, although well meaning, will have the opposite effect of its intention. I…

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Mar 1, 2017

To me, the most chilling finding of the board was--and this is a direct quote-- 'The unfortunate reality is that for at least the next decade, the offensive cyber capabilities of our most capable adversaries are likely to far exceed the…

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Mar 1, 2017

Well, I don't think we have five years. This is the longest windup for a punch in the history of the world.

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Mar 1, 2017

It has got to start with the direction from the President that we are going to have a policy.

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Mar 1, 2017

What bothers me, Mr. Chairman, if there is an attack--and I don't think it's if, I think it's when--and we go home, and I go home to Maine and say, well, we couldn't really defend ourselves because we had four committees that couldn't get…

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