Maria Cantwell

The issue is that we need to make sure that the traveling public is safe.

So I think the first thing is we have to--and after 501, we immediately improved our oversight and hands-on engagement of our road foremen...

And so I'm understanding your House testimony that you doubted that Amtrak would operate on any rail line that wasn't PTC functioning by the end of the year.

Well, I think that's what the Ranking Member was just saying, that, yes, we should have mandated something in 2015...

The discussion of positive train control and implementation has become a all too live debate in the State of Washington

I want to thank you.

We need to get the threat assessment done.

And we are dead serious that we have to come up with a threat assessment and work through it.

We are finding our whole political system is a target.

Cybersecurity is now more significant to our national security than terrorism.

We would like to see that be more than just a bill. We would like to see it be law and to put in place some of these protections that we have been working on so hard.

I know you and I keep hoping that there will be some cybersecurity legislation that moves through the Full Congress as it has already moved through the Senate.

We have been pushing for over a year now asking for a threat assessment to our electricity grid.

We want the Administration to be much more aggressive.

Make no mistake, our nation's energy infrastructure is under that attack from Russians and other state actors.

I am sure that the Chair has probably grown weary of how many times I bring up cybersecurity.

I just do not agree with it. ... mark me down as very opposed.

The notion that somehow people think that you should cut Medicaid and Medicare or block-grant Medicaid as a way to save dollars just because the population is growing, because of the demographics in our population, I just think is…

I believe that we have a growth in our Medicare and Medicaid population because we have a burgeoning baby boomer population that is reaching retirement.

How would the proposal encourage medical training in community clinics where most physicians actually care for patients?

I think the thing that we want to understand is what your personal views are on how important it is you think the FTC play an aggressive role here in filling the gap.

I certainly believe that you should, and we should, protect taxpayers with the best cybersecurity, technology, and personnel that can be hired today.

There are people, because of the change in the law, who are actually going to see a tax increase.

I still firmly believe in our deductibility rights as a State to deduct from our Federal tax obligation.

Just tell them we don't want our buildings to suck.