Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3696, H.R. 2952, and H.R. 3107. I want to thank Ranking Member Thompson, Chairman Meehan, and Ranking Member Clarke for their hard work in bringing these bills to the floor today. Most especially and in particular, I want to thank Chairman McCaul, the chairman of the full Homeland Security Committee, who also serves with me as a founder and a cochair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus. I want to thank him for his dedication to bringing these bills to the floor today and for his commitment to enacting strong cybersecurity legislation. In today's political climate, moving significant reform in a consensus manner is exceptionally difficult, and this success reflects Chairman McCaul's bipartisan approach. Mr. Speaker, we all know that we depend on cyberspace and the Internet every day. It is vitally important to the American people. It is an inseparable part of our everyday lives. It is in everything that we do--vital to everything from banking to national security--but it is also highly contested. Unfortunately, the pace of the threats is ever- increasing. We see them every day, whether it is the theft of personal information or of credit card information that is used for criminal intent or whether it is the theft of intellectual property that costs America its competitiveness and jobs.…”