I thank the majority leader, and I thank the Presiding Officer for allowing me to speak this evening. I just returned from the southern border and want to give a brief report and talk about some potential ways forward to deal with what is…

We have had a classified briefing, by the way, since you and I last talked at a public hearing.

We need to know the information, and if it is classified, we understand.

We have to do it yesterday because these attacks continue.

I have appreciated our bipartisan work over the years together on improving Federal cybersecurity, and I look forward to continuing the partnership.

I want to start by thanking Senator Ernst for once again setting up the Government Sunshine Week event and for her commitment, as was just discussed by my colleague from Florida, to ensuring taxpayers know where their money is going. This…

I believe the urgency here is clear, and I think you have stated it, that the statutory authorize for EINSTEIN expiring next year gives us a chance to do this.

The enemy is moving very quickly, both foreign state actors and cyber criminals, and we have to move even more quickly.

I do think that keeping semiconductor manufacturing in the United States is an absolutely critical national security priority.

I think we have to be very careful about targeting, but I think that expansion of home and community-based care in a pandemic, or beyond, is critical.

I noted the commitment to an April 14th markup of the China bill. I thank you for that. It is timely.

I am here on the floor today to talk about workforce training, a critical issue always but particularly now as we get to the point where we are coming out of the COVID-19 crisis, the economy is picking up, and we need more workers in this…