It seems that South Dakota and Florida have very excellent leadership.

Who wants to talk about training smart young people to move into the field of discovering this sort of thing, the need for a larger cybersecurity workforce?

Have any of you looked at my Cyber Scholarship Opportunities Act, which expands scholarships for students pursuing degrees in this area?

That ought to get somebody's attention.

I ask unanimous consent that Frank Tedeschi and Steven Fowler, defense fellows in Senator Rounds's office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I rise this morning to speak in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act. We are currently negotiating with Members of the Republican and Democratic Parties on how to consider amendments. We will eventually get there, as we do every…

I have 2 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

I rise today to comment about the economy, but I want to observe that I am proudly wearing a seersucker suit today. I would mention to my colleagues that Senators have worn seersucker suits for decades, for literally centuries, on this…

I ask unanimous consent that Allie McDonnell, an intern in Senator Sullivan's office, be granted floor privileges until the end of the day. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

I rise today to pay tribute to the Republic of Azerbaijan, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of its declaration of independence on May 28. The United States was one of the first countries to recognize Azerbaijan's independence. The…

I rise this morning to encourage my colleagues to support and cosponsor the Mobile Accuracy and Precision Broadband Act, also known as the MAP Broadband Act. If we want to get broadband deployment right in this country, if we want to close…

I have 10 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

Thank you, Mr. President. I have been recognized to close the debate on this motion. In a few moments, we will be voting on the motion to proceed to this resolution. I will be voting no and urge my colleagues to do so. This debate is about…

Given that there is high demand for this route and the local community is willing to kick in to provide a portion of the funding, do you have an opinion yet as to whether this is an economically viable route for Amtrak?

I want to invite you and other members of your Board to join me in riding this train. I think it would be an education to see the amount of people that depend on this.

Let me just ask about the Host Railroad Performance Report Card. There's some good news and some bad news in this respect.

We cannot do it without strong partnership with Amtrak.

Now back to the statistic you gave about Mississippi. I assume you have similar statistics about all of the other states represented around the dais.

You know we're having a debate, Mr. Reed, with the FCC about the reliability of their maps on this very topic.

Well, perhaps we can expound more on that during the question and answer.

Well, thanks to all four of you for some very, very intriguing testimony.

Thank you very much, Senator Schatz, and, of course, Senator Schatz and I will be canceling each other's vote out later this week on the issue of so-called net neutrality.

Right now, you have 27.8 percent of the population without broadband, but more importantly, 50.2 percent of the population is in rural areas.

You cannot predict based on background, based on education, who is going to be a good developer.

I rise in strong support of the nomination of Mike Pompeo, our current CIA Director, to be the next Secretary of State. I must say, I watched with interest the proceedings the day before yesterday in the Foreign Relations Committee. The…