Political Quotes

“if I may take a moment or two, we have just concluded on the House floor a bipartisan meeting between Members of the House and Senator Allen and myself where we had some 400-plus individuals from all across the United States discussing a wide range of issues regarding the Internet and cyberspace. It was a fascinating discussion. That group is soon to come over to this Chamber, following the Senate standing in recess, where Senator Allen and I will continue that discussion, but we will also speak about the history of this Chamber. In the course of my remarks--and then I will call on my distinguished colleague to follow with his remarks--I addressed the extraordinary problem that the entire Nation is facing with regard to those devising capabilities to hack into our computer systems and, as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, what our committee is now doing with the subcommittee on emerging threats, which under the leadership of Senator Roberts has taken many strides towards trying to take positive actions to stop the invasion of our computer systems. In the year 1999, there were over 20,000 invasions of various computer systems in the Department of Defense, and in the following year up to 24,000 intrusions into our system.”