A number of you have discussed sales to the military as an area of particular concern in terms of counterfeiting.

We are talking about a very significant crime. We are talking about a crime that has colossal economic impacts on our country.

China appears to be the most dangerous and active nation state actor, malefactor, in this area.

I think the bottom line is that we have--there are resources that could protect private sector critical infrastructure but will not without declassification...

I think we have a challenge of making the laws work right, but we are up for that challenge.

The common thread is that these threats all take advantage of our strong reliance on the Internet for social communications, business, and national defense.

The administration has proposed allowing RICO to cover crimes committed in cyberspace as well as setting mandatory minimum sentences for intrusions into critical infrastructure.

Are you satisfied that the existing resources will do the trick, or do we need to think about scaling up to meet this threat?

Unless we are willing to share those with fairly large sectors of the private industry, because it is hard to pick winners and losers...

We must also align our laws and policies with the realities of today's Internet, and I appreciate the administration's proposal to move in this direction.

I think that construct is starting to work in the way that we had always envisioned it would.

And I will add also a report from the Center for Democracy and Technology entitled 'Cybersecurity: Evaluating the Administration's Proposals,' dated June 21, 2011.

And Senator Rockefeller and I and others have sent a letter to the SEC asking that they beef this up.

I think where we find agreement we should move things up.

Depending on the agency relationship, it could easily become a government act.

You will agree with me that there is an issue that is worth pursuing, though.

we in Congress should presume that the administration intends the ISPs to be in that process

I have to assume that the interagency process is sort of an ongoing thing and that there remain discussions going on within the administration on these subjects.

Your partnership and leadership on this issue have been invaluable to me, deeply appreciated both in the work we have done on this issue back in Rhode Island, but nationally here in the Congress.

But that said, you do believe that, as time goes forward, this is going to be an increasing threat for the country, an increasing responsibility for law enforcement, and we are going to need increasing resources in order to meet that…

There is a huge disjunction between what is really happening out there and what people know.

I think we need to bridge that gap, and I do not see how the bill does that.

I am worried about the extent of the threat that we are facing right now and the time that it will take to work through some of the administrative procedures.

We, too, look forward to working with the Department of Justice, to use your words, to improve and amplify the administration's proposals.

But a domain clears that issue, does it not, by making people aware so that there is consent before you enter it?