Olympia Snowe

Our legislation calls for developing a cybersecurity strategy and identifying the key roles and responsibilities of all the players.

President Obama called cyberspace a strategic national asset.

I think they could use some help on the recruitment side.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I would like to take this opportunity to commend you for your extraordinary and visionary leadership...

Too much is at stake for us to pretend that today's outdated cybersecurity policies are up to the task.

We have since had multiple drafts. We are trying to bring new, high-level governmental attention to developing a fully integrated, thoroughly coordinated public private partnership.

Getting increasingly sophisticated? Yes. And how do we keep pace with that sophistication?

Forcing transparency, by the way--it's a strange analogy--it's the bathing-suit test.

We have a lot of people out there who would do the right thing, but we shouldn't be penalizing them for doing so.

We have to, all of us, decide how to do this.

There's a whole area here that needs to be--opened up for discussion, a whole area of possible government action that's really not being addressed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Unfortunately, as Senator Sanders and Senator Gillibrand of this committee are all too aware, this staggering unemployment figure permeates throughout the northern tier of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Economic development in all areas of our Nation is key to our country's economic recovery and expansion.

It is my distinct privilege to join Senator Collins in introducing the President's nominee for Federal Cochair of the Northern Border Commission, Sandy Blitz.

I just profoundly disagree with that. I think most people do, given those circumstances.

I think the American people need to have reassurances as well in terms of what is going to change as a result.

So what was the fast-moving event of that day that necessitated issuing his Miranda rights? I'm not clear on that.

The current intelligence-sorting processes today could be improved by utilizing technology that can be programmed to differentiate among specific types of threats.

This is nothing less than the security of our homeland, our people, and our Nation and our efforts must rise to a level commensurate with both the challenges and the potentially catastrophic consequences.

But, what information did you have--that Customs and Border Protection had--to warrant further questioning?

If somebody's a threat, they're a threat. I don't know how you make a distinction between a threat and an aviation threat.

The information that was available to analysts, as is usually the case, was fragmented and embedded in a large volume of other data.

It is simply unacceptable that the same gaping holes that have persisted since the tragedy of September 11, 2001, continue to plague our efforts to mitigate the threat against commercial aviation.

I mean, you don't create it, but you can nominate individuals, based on your acquisition information.