David Cicilline

Under President George W. Bush, the prosecution of child exploitation crimes became one of our core priorities at the Justice Department.

I can tell you that, from my time as a Federal prosecutor, it is the child exploitation images that I have been forced to view, from an in camera evidentiary standpoint, that I will remember always as the most disturbing and difficult part…

We are here today because Russia engaged in unprecedented criminal attacks against the United States by illegally hacking information

I think there is no better investment that we make as a country than investing in the education of our young people.

The proposed draconian cuts to nonmilitary spending are a step in the wrong direction.

These proposed cuts are extremely troubling and would likely have devastating effects on the American economy.

Japan demands that we risk lives to defend these uninhabited islands and that we spend billions.

If China somehow dominated wrongfully and tried to interdict in this area, those tankers would have to change their course, thus increasing the cost of gasoline in Japan by at least 1/10 of 1 cent per gallon.

None of those disputes justify a massive increase in the American military budget.

We focus all of our attention on China's refusal to adhere to international law on these disputes.

The aggression of China in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, is an irritant and maritime disputes and our support for a free, international maritime regime is important.

The most powerful economic decision maker in America is Wall Street, and they want us to ignore the devastation of America's working families.

Made In USA manufacturing is the backbone of the innovation economy, giving creatives + technologists the tools to commercialize their ideas.

It's questionable whether TPP labor standards can actually be verified or enforced in such countries.

Domestic manufacturers object to NAFTA & TPP-style trade agreements that not only outsource American manufacturing jobs to low-wage, unregulated countries.

We urge the House of Representatives to move this legislation forward and make the Manufacturing Communities program a permanent incentive for Made In USA small business growth.

Deliberate currency undervaluation by America's trading partners has cost the U.S. millions of jobs over the last two decades.

There is nothing that prohibits that today in the ACA. In fact, it is expressly authorized, is it not?

There's been a lot of discussion, both in this hearing already but throughout the country, about this notion of allowing competition across State lines.

It's disruptive and you think the Committee and Congress should look at other things.

Meanwhile, health insurers have no similar history of utilizing advisory organizations for the joint estimation and projection of medical claim costs.

This exemption is not only damaging to the consumer when they purchase health insurance, it damages the healthcare providers.

I don't believe that all of this anticompetitive conduct is technically exempt from the antitrust laws.

The Justice Department has won two important civil antitrust lawsuits initiated under the Obama administration to prevent unprecedented consolidation in the health insurance market.

Robust enforcement of the antitrust laws is an important way in which the government makes sure the market provides the best outcomes for society with respect to choice, innovation, and price as well as fair labor and business markets.