However, the connections that we rely on also create vulnerabilities and new potential avenues for our adversaries to exploit at our Nation's expense.

Cyber, as we understand it in government, will always be something that creates risk to go along with its great promise.

Technology and the internet have fundamentally changed how citizens, the Nation, the military, and our adversaries in the world operate.

I think it is important that we meet them at every challenge.

Anytime that our enemies or adversaries do something that goes unanswered, I think it just emboldens them further.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I would also like to thank her, Chairman Thompson, Congressman Sarbanes, and the many Democratic Members who helped craft this important legislation. H.R. 1, Mr. Chairman, among many things, will make…

I think a robust discussion about what is actually in the Nuclear Posture Review and whether or not it makes sense to maintain that deterrence, that is the debate we were having.

I don't think there is anybody on this committee who is not in support of modernizing our nuclear force.

I want to thank our witnesses for your testimony this morning.

the facts are exactly the opposite when you are talking-- looking at the actual number. Apprehensions today are substantially smaller than they were 20 years ago.

I have long held that and I have an interest in ensuring that we are making policy based on sound data and credible threats.

Using low-enriched uranium in naval reactor fuel has the potential to bring significant national security benefits.

The President has claimed--and the way I read it, it has misled the American people.

So, Secretary Nielsen, what the President had said was not accurate, was it?

Now let me establish, from the outset, that we all want stronger border security.

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The question is what is the most efficacious way of getting us there and not creating a solution that fills a political promise but doesn't really achieve strong border security.

According to this report, so the number of apprehensions at the border in 2000 was 1.6 million.

Thus, we strongly support the bipartisan Air Carrier Access Amendments Act, H.R. 1549, which was introduced in March 2019 by Representative Jim Langevin.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank you for holding this important hearing.

I am concerned about the slowdown with the security clearance process as well.

I think best practices that I have seen in private industry have been around training programs where you actually create test-phishing campaigns.

We really do expect and anticipate better communication from the Department moving forward on this issue.

Your candor is very helpful and it helps us to understand the scope of the challenge and what we need to do to get this right.

I share your concern about the clearance process.