"Deamonte Driver was a 12-year-old who lived in Prince George's County, MD, about 7 miles from here."
"I do not want to make this a bouquet-tossing contest, but the fact is Senator Cardin has been after these issues for years and years, before they became popular, before they were debated on the floor ..."
"Thrilled, terrific. But what about this other stuff?"
"I am all-in for Senator Cardin's program."
"I think your answer is spot-on, and I would be interested in any information you have or could supply."
"I asked Director Haines about a matter that I'm especially concerned about and that's the National Security Council's rewrite of the Executive Order that governs classification and declassification."
"One of the reasons is that there are too many secrets of matters that do not need to be secret."
"Senator Moynihan always stood for the proposition that a big part of the job in intelligence is striking the balance between transparency and protecting sources and methods."
"There are clearly too many jobs in the Federal government that require a security clearance."
"not my purview"
"this is more reason for the Congress and this Committee to step in and do this job and do it in a bipartisan way."
"The Biden administration, from the get-go, had a difficult job to do with respect to trade."