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 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.

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

I want to thank you.

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

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

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

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

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...

We want the Administration to be much more aggressive.

We need to get the threat assessment done.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 wish to speak about an urgent challenge facing my constituents and my colleagues in the Pacific Northwest that unfortunately was ignored in this massive legislative mishmash we were asked to vote up or down on in the middle of the night…

Hopefully our colleagues, as we move more to a larger infrastructure discussion in the Senate, will look at some of these issues that we are talking about today.

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

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thanks for holding this important hearing on a variety of issues as it relates to our nation's energy infrastructure.

I come to the floor to speak against the Trump administration's egregious attack on our pristine coastlines in the Pacific, the Atlantic, Alaska, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Dramatic increases in oil and gas development offshore pose a…

Thank you Chairman Isakson and Ranking Member Tester for moving this bill through your committee.