May I inquire how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington has 6\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 6\1/2\ minutes.

May I inquire how much time each side has remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Washington has 13 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Texas also has 13 minutes remaining.

It takes a network to defeat a network.

In the prime sponsor of this bill's remarks, there are a whole lot of sort of half-truths and assumptions that got jammed together that don't actually make sense and are not actually the facts that are before us to paint a very dark…

I have no further speakers, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, the most interesting thing about this debate is that, as we have moved on from speaker to speaker, the proponents of this legislation keep saying the same…

I yield myself an additional 1 minute. Once we have determined that they are not a threat, under our opinion, and are transferable, to say, look, sorry, we are just going to hold you because we want to, is really a violation of the U.S…

I think this is a very appropriate time to revisit Goldwater-Nichols, to look at the command structure, figure out, you know, what is the best plan going forward.

Is the current combatant command structure the best way to do that?

Could we save some money by consolidating that and trimming that down?

Is it too top heavy the way we have it structured with the command structures?

I think the most important thing you said there and something that we need to more clearly include in our national security strategy is the building of partners because that is the only way we confront those threats.

I agree with your comments about both the complexity and the importance of cyber.