Political Quotes

“speaking against this amendment, I know the Senator from Florida probably, given his intelligence work, wants to be well-meaning, but this amendment is not ready for the focus that we need to give on issues of counterintelligence. This amendment, as drafted, literally says that the Director of National Intelligence should look at and certify whether any of the entities given this money--including NASA, which would be given money under this bill--that they would have to certify for a 10-year period of time. So, literally, every institution, every organization that gets money under this bill would have to certify for a 10-year period of time that they didn't have anything to do with a Chinese investment. I am all for investigating theft and intellectual property. In fact, the Senator from Mississippi and I added several provisions to our legislation. Other people have added things to this legislation. But do I want the Director of National Intelligence calling every university in the United States that might get money from this program and asking them to verify for the last 10 years what did they ever take as far as Chinese investment? I have news for you. I want the Director of National Intelligence to be focusing on cyber security. If somebody didn't see, we have just had a major pipeline incident.…”