if we can actually get something done here, whose name appears on the bill will be long forgotten compared to the incredible value that will be added to our national parks

Russia will be back in 2018. We need to be ready.

A recent set of executive orders issued by the President attempts to dramatically undermine the rights and protections of Federal workers.

The administration's proposals include cuts in retirement benefits and across-the-board pay freezes.

Given the complexity of the tax code and the importance of helping taxpayers, recruiting and retaining skilled employees is of utmost importance.

My hope would be--the reports have come up of minors being kept in solitary confinement for 23 to 24 hours, to being strapped to a chair, to being strapped to a chair without any clothing, to having bags put over their head, all practices…

I would love to sit down with you on that, because I do think with pricing transparency... we can actually see whether the market will perform or not.

The sooner you can get me a response on those, the better.

And I know this is a hearing about drug pricing today--and I will come back to that--but I, like a number of my colleagues, have some questions about the ongoing crisis of the children at the border.

So a third party could come in and be the ongoing servicer?

I thank the leadership of the committee for getting that $380 million into the budget to try to help assist election officials around the country.

I pushed that review. I pushed to make sure that we would have that paper audit trail because we had statewide elections in 2017.

I don't think enough was done, but there were a series of actions taken.

But now you can touch a whole universe or the world with a keystroke.

An ongoing threat that has been confirmed by every member of the Trump intelligence community that Russia and/or others will be back in terms of trying to penetrate our systems.

The Commonwealth of Virginia requested you return those machines. You did not.

I would hope that there might be some way and I think the social media companies have been slow.

I would like to get a commitment from you that you will work not only with the Commonwealth Virginia, but with other states that are doing such a review.

I believe we have such concentration in these systems on the backend, and 90 percent concentration, and the vulnerabilities that I believe exist and still exist.

I am very concerned that there is a lot of chest thumping about how well we did in 2016.

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I think this is probably outside the scope of the whole hearing, but to me, when we do not have a single data breach notification requirement...

the fact that there is a 74,000-person backlog is insane, and that is a national security risk

One of the issues that--and I think, Ms. Martin, it was raised in your testimony--I am increasingly seeing is kind of isolated areas where there may be, you know, two competing hospital systems, and they leave an isolated island in between…