Sheldon Whitehouse

There are really two problems. One is that even the high performers remain vulnerable to breach by very highly qualified and persistent attackers.

If you detect a note of impatience from myself and from Senator Graham, it comes with the recognition that you are parts of very, very large bureaucracies that do not always move with great alacrity.

I look forward to working with you on your legislation. I think it is a very valuable thought.

I have spoken to both of them about this problem and about the concern that I have that you guys are good scouts.

Now, if I heard you correctly in your testimony, you said that two-thirds of the time when you respond to a company that has said, 'We have been hacked,' they had no idea that they had been hacked until some Government agency warned them…

I think we can make some progress on your capabilities and authorities and safeguards in taking out these botnets.

It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity today to join my senior Senator, Jack Reed, in introducing our fellow Rhode Islander, Brian Nichols.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:34 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 9:30 a.m…

I have been asked to inform the body that the filing deadline for all first-degree amendments to S. 743 is 1 p.m. tomorrow. Unless an agreement is reached, the cloture vote on S. 743 will occur on Friday morning. ____________________

I now ask for a second reading and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S2979, April 24, 2013, the…

I understand there is a bill at the desk. I ask for its first reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report the bill by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 799) to provide for a sequester…

I don't think it will take this long, but I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

I just want to join my colleagues in thanking the Campbell family.

I think in a country of laws, failing to enforce the law is a mistake.

The enforcement results in terms of additional seizures and prosecutions are up?

The amount of illegal immigration as a result has been reduced?

You do a wonderful job. I am delighted that you are here.

This administration has actually substantially brought up this country's game in terms of border enforcement.

I think that is a refrain that departs a little bit from the facts

The I.G. has found no evidence of biased enforcement of voting rights laws, politically based hiring, or politicized FOIA responses.

It is so important for the people of the United States to have confidence that the Department of Justice is not affected by that kind of partisan poison that you inherited.

It's critical that where we're investing our dollars are places that will actually be granting degrees and generating real results for students.

Clearly, one factor in all of this is the Pell grant.

I think we do what we can to get it out.

Now, that's down to 32 percent, even after the increases that we added in recent years.