Jim Langevin

I want to thank our witnesses for providing us the benefit of your experience and your insight.

Are we trying to artificially hold together an Iraq that doesn't want to be held together?

I think that the National Guard in some ways, in many ways, is an underappreciated resource.

That is part of what we are going to ensure in our oversight responsibility, is to make sure that we are working these things through.

So, obviously, that goes to the fact that they would go to people they have dealt with in the past.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 50, line 25, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $2,000,000)''. Page 52, line 13, after the dollar amount…

I think it is a good segue to this question--following up on Chairman Ratcliffe's earlier question...

I have no speakers on my side, so I yield back the balance of my time.

Let me first say that I want to thank the chairman of the Armed Services Committee for his bipartisan cooperation in arriving at this en bloc package. I have no speakers at this point, so I reserve the balance of my time.

Since there are no additional speakers on my side, I yield back the balance of my time.

At this time, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Rhode Island will be postponed. Amendment No. 41 Offered by Mr. Nadler The Acting CHAIR (Mr…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Rhode Island has 2\1/4\ minutes remaining.

At this time I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Tsongas).

I claim the time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Rhode Island is recognized for 5 minutes.

I have no additional speakers at this time. I yield back the balance of my time.

At this time I have no speakers. I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I will just close by saying, as I said in the beginning, that this amendment is a solution in search of a problem, and I would say it is not necessary at this time. No one is proposing reducing the alert levels at this time, and I would…

I have no speakers, so at this time, I yield back the balance of my time.

I claim the time in opposition, although I am not opposed to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection, the gentleman from Rhode Island is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 30, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $2,426,400).'' Page 30, line 16, after the dollar amount…

I thank the chairman. I am fond of saying that cybersecurity is not a problem to be solved but a challenge to be managed. I thank the chairman for his collaboration and his leadership on this issue, along with Ranking Member Thompson. I…

I thank the chairman for his kind words of support. As many in this Chamber know, Chairman McCaul and I have a long history on the issue of cybersecurity, from our time as co-chairs of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th…

Exactly what you are saying is what concerns me, is that the technologies are maturing faster than what we may realize.

The Navy has been a leader in trying to push these technologies that have been in the lab and get them actually into the field.