Jim Langevin

I look forward to working with you in this as well.

I am particularly concerned about the effect of sequestration on cyber operations, which by their nature are more vulnerable to short-term budgetary pressure.

It will place an unreasonable burden on the shoulders of our soldiers and civilians.

Sequestration will have a disruptive and negative impact on both the Department's long-term research and on investments in STEM education.

I thank the gentleman. These technologies will not be, again, a replacement for kinetic defenses; but given the threats that we face in terms of raid sizes from adversaries on both short-, medium-, and long-range missiles, directed energy…

I hope that we will pay attention to that during this session of Congress to make sure that the Federal agencies have the resources they need to be able to deal with the consequences of Hurricane Sandy.

I have introduced the Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act to provide funding to communities for projects such as reducing flooding in vulnerable communities.

We need to invest in those types of common sense ways that we can deal with the realities of severe weather.

Our first obligation now is to make sure the people who are affected and the communities that are affected, that we do what we can to bring them back to where they need to be.

We need to take a look at the environmental impacts. There have been numerous oil spills as a result of Sandy that are having an impact on our environment.

I am going to be working with Governor O'Malley to make sure that the individuals who have been impacted by this storm have as strong a partner from the Federal Government as we can possibly have.

Ranking Member Sanchez and I spoke earlier, and we agreed that the system is broken.

Let me be clear: I rank this failure alongside the Air Force's unauthorized shipments of nuclear weapons to Barksdale Air Force Base in 2007 and nuclear weapons components to Taiwan, which was reported in 2008.

This level of intrusion into the perimeter of a highly secure nuclear weapons facility is unprecedented--and it is completely unacceptable.

Do you think it would have been better to have New START and Russia's cooperation on not selling S-300 missiles to Iran, or would we be better off without New START and S-300 surface-to-air missiles in Iran?

Do we have stronger multilateral sanctions on Iran now than we did in 2008? Has the U.S. contribution to the reset with Russia contributed to this effort?

President Obama's pragmatic approach...has yielded numerous benefits, including Russian logistical support for the U.S. mission and troops in Afghanistan.

Russia clearly is an important partner on a range of critical security issues.

My final question is, why does the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty matter?

Would that progress have been achieved but for President Obama's commitment--expressed commitment to global nuclear zero, to the greater progress towards nuclear disarmament? I don't believe so.

I don't think any of us should be deceived into thinking that this is some new idea, that this was some new problem that was discovered during the Obama administration and addressed during the Obama administration for the first time.

Could each of you explain the Command and Control Relationships between your respective Service Cyber Components and CYBERCOM, regional combatant commanders, and other command structures?

The value of red-teaming--threat emulation--was proven perhaps most clearly in the Vietnam War with the establishment of Top Gun.

We all know that we are facing significant fiscal challenges in the coming years.

The Congress, and the country has a whole, has been struggling with what cybersecurity means to us as a nation.