Mike Gallagher: “We need to graduate 2,000 a year. I mean, we have a tremendous need for these skilled people.”

The United States uses such connectivity modules in a wide variety of devices, including smart devices and domestic telecom networks.

Last year, after touring PortMiami, Congressman Mike Gallagher said he felt ports were doing what they needed to do to mitigate potential risks in the short-term.

Now it's 2 months later--that would be 10 percent of the way through the 18-month timeline--and this subcommittee, the Armed Services Committee more broadly, and industry, I would argue, including small and medium-sized innovative…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is fitting, at least for me, that we are debating this today because one of the very first bills I got passed as a freshman Member of Congress working across the aisle with my fellow classmate…