Maria Cantwell actually said...

I believe is, definitely, that the national labs should, in the American Competes Act--or as some now are calling it, USICA--gets it's fair ...

I am a whole-hearted believer in this, and we have changed the EPSCoR program to work more effectively in the USICA Act because of this.

A grid disruption could have massive impacts to our economy. Lives could also be on the line.

It would take months for the U.S. to recover from such a hostile attack in the shutdown of our electricity grid.