We have not yet said what is going to be our response to such intrusions.

We face a morass of gray when it comes to our menu of options.

I sincerely believe that we are going to keep seeing breaches of sensitive Government networks, unfortunately, until we start holding attackers accountable.

I think we have much more to do in cyber deterrence.

We have to change the calculus so that our enemies or adversaries know that there is a cost to hacking our systems and stealing our data.

Well, I clearly agree that we should have some more international rules of the road. This isn't just a U.S. problem, but an international one.

We find ourselves in a very difficult circumstance when it comes to the interests of the United States and our allies.

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

In the past 2 weeks, we have learned that the data millions of Americans entrusted to the Office of Personnel Management have been taken as a result of a cybersecurity breach. It did not have to happen this way. Since 2007, OPM's inspector…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, the national sea-based deterrence fund is critical to the future of our national security. It provides space outside the shipbuilding fund for the most survivable piece of our national…

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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…

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