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

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.

These innovations have been accompanied by new threats to our prosperity, to our privacy, to our intellectual property, to our very national security.

we need to have our Eliot Ness moment on this and get ready to put the resources into this problem set.

let me thank the distinguished Senator from Louisiana for his hard work, along with Chairman Boxer, to get us to this point, which I think is a very auspicious point with a very bipartisan bill on the floor and with the Senate on the cusp…

I will accept Senator Graham's invitation or suggestion that we try to come up with something on visas, perhaps in the framework of the immigration bill that is now pending.

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.

Senator Graham and I came very close to having a bipartisan agreement on a cyber bill.

if you are looking at a company, it is in one of two categories: It either has been hacked and knows it, or it has been hacked and does not know it.

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

I would ask you for your commitment to work with us in drafting appropriate legislation that will allow you to have more authority and proper safeguards.

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

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.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Protecting Social Security

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 ask unanimous consent the resolutions be agreed to, the preambles be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table en bloc, with no intervening action or debate. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so…

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 ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2013; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

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 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 come to the floor again to address climate change, particularly today the change that carbon pollution is wreaking in our oceans. Water temperatures are increasing, sea level is rising, ocean water is growing more acidic, and powerful…

I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration, en bloc, of the following resolutions, which were submitted earlier today: S. Res. 111, S. Res. 112, S. Res. 113, and S. Res. 114. There being no objection, the…

last month, the Senate approved a budget that included a blueprint for balanced and responsible deficit reduction. That budget was skillfully managed by our Budget Committee chairman, Senator Murray. It would complete the deficit reduction…