that is very kind of the Senator from West Virginia. My statement is quite lengthy. So if the Senator from West Virginia, in light of his commitment, would like to precede me, I would be more than happy to have him do so. I would encourage…

In my view, the report underestimates the importance of Chinese participation in future rounds of arms reductions.

today I have filed an amendment to extend for 1 year the individual income tax provisions of the 2001 and 2003 tax relief acts for all Americans, but with a surtax of two percent on those earning $1 million or more, coupled with a…

I am pleased to join my colleagues in support of Senate debate and passage of the fiscal year 2013 appropriations bills. I want to begin by commending both Chairman Inouye and Vice-Chair Cochran for their leadership on the Appropriations…

I cannot tell you how many chief information officers of major companies have come to me and said, "I know we need to invest in this area. We are so vulnerable. But we cannot get the attention of the chief executive officer."

Our goal was to create a coordinated effort among the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the National Counterterrorism Center.

shame on Congress if we do not take steps now to try to avert a cyber 9/11.

This has to be a priority, and I know it is something you care a lot about.

I think there is an easily drawn distinction between educating the American people about the threat generally...

I would also point out as my final comment that while all of us, everybody agrees that improved information sharing is absolutely essential, it is far from a panacea that will lead to improved cybersecurity.

I was interested when you described the gains made by the Department as 'fragile,' and I think that is a good cautionary note to us.

I mean, we have seen these threats mount, and to go back to earlier comments made, what is likely to take place in the wake of some type of cyber catastrophe is going to be messier and not nearly as useful as doing something now.

the communities, the companies, and the countries that are best able to manage risk, to withstand it, to promptly respond and recover from it, and to adapt to it that will be a competitive advantage over everybody else.

if we let those disagreements sink a bill that requires critical infrastructure to meet certain standards... we will be failing the American people.

I think that we can conclude that a completely voluntary system where we do nothing related to critical infrastructure will not solve the problem.

we really have to figure out how we not keep everything in a cone of silence, but we really push the envelope on pushing information out.

we need to move away from essentially a largely offense-based and largely overreliance on Federal capability.

I certainly agree with Mr. Flynn that an alert citizenry in many ways is our best defense.

Nearly 10 years ago, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security brought together 22 different agencies into a single Department to focus like a laser on protecting our country and its citizens.

the failure to appoint a point person to come up with a narrative, the failure to recognize the term of Islamist extremism...

we have to work together as a society in order to nail down these problems.

Actually what we are looking for was common ground with Senator McCain sitting to my left and Senator Lieberman over here.

We simply cannot tolerate giving our adversaries information that they can turn against us.

to fix those problems, we should not rearrange the deck chairs again.

The terrorist threats facing our country have evolved since the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11).