last September, President Trump took it upon himself to create an economic, humanitarian, and political crisis by rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, without proposing a serious solution for the nearly…

the Chinese seem to be making that type of commitment very publicly: hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

They are undertaking significant national investment in artificial intelligence and quantum computing that is dwarfing anything that the Administration is proposing or suggesting.

The last election there was Russian influence. This election, they seem to be more prepared.

Passing on relevant intelligence is not actively disrupting the operations of an opponent. Do you agree?

But has he singled out the Russian threat, which appears to be critical to this election coming up?

the Chinese activity to appropriate our intellectual property is obvious.

Collecting intelligence, then acting on it in a coordinated fashion, are two different things.

today I pay tribute to DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, on the 60th anniversary of its inception. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, President Eisenhower determined that the United States would never again be…

But you need more. I will take that as a yes.

Do you have the technologists, the computer experts that can begin to understand how these cryptocurrencies work?

Today, I am introducing the Control Your Personal Credit Information Act, which seeks to give consumers greater control over when and how their consumer reports are shared by consumer reporting agencies. Under existing law, the current…

I am still quite concerned that we have made little or no progress in these areas and that we are not doing everything we need to set the right conditions for diplomacy with North Korea.

A theme seems to be appearing that there is not a binary choice between war and diplomacy.

the United States will continue to exert maximum pressure diplomatically and economically until North Korea comes to the table and agrees to a negotiated solution, and that the United States will only use military force as a last resort.

I am also concerned that there is a lot of cavalier talk about war and limited strikes with North Korea.

This has been an extraordinarily thoughtful presentation by the witnesses.

Russia remains determined to reassert its influence around the world

the central challenge facing our nation is the reemergence of long-term strategic competition with Russia and China

Thank you all, gentlemen, for the extraordinary testimony and again for your service to the nation. All have reflected the importance of diplomacy and also the multifaceted challenges we face. They are not simply in the military dimension…

China continues to threaten the rules-based order in the Asia-Pacific region

The proliferation issue is absolutely critical, and Korea, if it continues on its projection, raises huge proliferation problems.

we must not neglect other equally complicated challenges: North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile efforts

President Trump and the Republicans have been in charge of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate for nearly a year now. Under their control, these three institutions have formed a Bermuda Triangle, if you will, for…

Is that information available to the Congress and the public?