John Ratcliffe

We can't leave the American people, the American economy, and our critical infrastructure to fend for itself.

Chairman Ratcliffe mentioned in his opening statements, there are two kinds of companies, the ones that have been hacked, the ones that don't know that they have.

Congress must utilize rigorous oversight to ensure that DHS is fulfilling its mission to better protect our networks.

I would ask that we would open with a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims and their families.

For the record and for the benefit of some in the audience and for a point of optimism on this question and issue, last week this committee did mark up and pass legislation to support small businesses.

the trends that we've seen with respect to China enforcing its antitrust laws to advance its own industrial policies are troubling, to say the least.

the bottom line is, I think, that if China wants to be taken serious as a leading economy, then these issues need to be addressed or remediated.

it's difficult to imagine China having a truly objective antitrust law when the very text of that law states that its purpose is to promote a socialist market economy.

Over the course of the last years, you know, we have had hearings on this committee on security breaches caused by improper screening of employees of airports and airlines and vendors.

The facts here are really not in dispute. The commissioner failed to comply with the subpoena.

Clearly, the administration, by not finalizing this plan doesn't seem to be taking cyber incident response planning seriously.

We know that the IG has confirmed that. And a problem here is the IRS went after and targeted select groups of Americans because of their political beliefs.

And that is counter to everything we are as a republic, that we're a rule of law, not a rule of men.

Six years is entirely too long for any type of response plan to sit on a shelf in the White House, but it is especially dangerous in the case of cyber.

Securing our States from cyber threats now includes entirely new roles and responsibilities that didn't exist 50 years ago.

We are neither too ignorant nor too proud to think that a major cyber event is outside the realm of possibility right now.

It is important that we spend as much time and energy thinking about the solutions that secure Americans as we do on the examination of the dangers.

Congress has to restore faith and trust in an agency that is doing targeting of any type of American.

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by…

I would like to thank Chairman Dent and Ranking Member Bishop for their hard work on behalf of servicemembers and veterans all across the country. The Ratcliffe-MacArthur-Bost amendment that I am offering today with my colleagues, the…

Once again, I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 4780. I yield back the balance of my time.

If the Obama administration is looking to authorize--and I understood it to be 10 LPDs, or last points of departure, airports in Cuba; there is some discussion about whether it may be 7 or 6.

The practice of courts deferring to agencies' expansive interpretation of their power as directed under Chevron has created a serious problem with our regulatory system.

This is not about Republicans versus Democrats, it is about article I versus article II. It is about respecting constitutional lanes of authority.

I once again urge my colleagues to support Mr. Zeldin's bill, H.R. 1887. I yield back the balance of my time.