It is my goal to make sure that our Intelligence Community is properly resourced between the MIP and the NIP.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing. As you are well aware, the Intelligence Community is an issue that is of great interest to me.

I have been pleased to note the Navy's increasing investment in the technologies that I feel will be needed in these environments.

I am deeply concerned about the possible effects of the current budgetary uncertainty of the procurement of nuclear submarines.

I have been following with great interest the development of semiautonomous and autonomous UUVs and USVs designed for roles ranging from environmental monitoring to mine-hunting.

Future threat environments are likely to be exceedingly complex, as threat actors acquire significant capabilities in the realms of UAVs, cruise missiles, and swarming attacks.

I am sure that our first hearing will spur some thoughts about, among our members, regarding the future national security environment.

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

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

I look forward to working with these gentlemen and ladies as well.

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 want to thank Ranking Member Smith for yielding and also wish to thank Chairman McKeon, both of them, for their hard work on this bill and working so collaboratively on behalf of the men and women in uniform and for our national…

Impending budget cuts under sequestration pose a serious risk to America's leadership in a variety of areas. The one in particular that I want to focus on today is the serious risk to America's leadership on a clean-energy economy and to…

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

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.

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.

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.

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

On rollcall 609, H.R. 5997, as amended, I was unavoidably detained and missed the vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' ____________________

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I was unavoidably detained on rollcall No. 604. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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.