cybersecurity is no longer just about defending our data. It is on a larger scale about defending our democracy from unwanted foreign influence and disinformation campaigns.

Let me go further on that. I love the--Ph.D. in military history. It was a fascinating educational background.

Shouldn't the Army Corps be helping to build back a better, more resilient grid than what existed before?

I was deeply disappointed at the rate of recovery of potable water.

We should also examine the state of our cybersecurity practices in defending our critical election infrastructure from covert interference and manipulation.

I confess the number of emails I get every week from family members that have the wildest possible theories.

using the services or software of Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based company that reportedly has close ties to Russian intelligence services, using this on federal networks presents risks not worth taking.

The current budgeting process, including the regular use of continuing resolutions, threat of government shutdowns, lack of a stable budgetary environment prohibits this kind of trade space to be used.

If I can be parochial for just a minute, in two days, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket is going to launch from the mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility up to the International Space Station with important supplies…

The American people, Republican, Democratic and everything else, deserve a higher standard of experience and accomplishment from the top scientific leaders in our government.

Mr. Chairman, I don't have any strong objections to the parts of this bill that deal with forest resilience, and I yield to people who know a lot more about forests than I do. But I am concerned that H.R. 2936 is harmful for all of the…