Ron Johnson

The threat has gone away. It has metastasized, it has spread, and we are just kind of seeing the normal level of threat now

I think the trends are still pretty interesting. You can see the real spike in 2014.

So total from January 2016 to the present, our EINSTEIN cybersecurity protection system within the Federal Government is only detecting 2.4 percent of the incidents.

We have a broken legal immigration system and we do not have secure borders.

I am looking forward to working with the Administration and all of my colleagues to actually fix one problem--not comprehensive immigration reform, but just identify a particular problem, hopefully in a nonpartisan way, looking at facts…

I want to associate myself with Senator Lankford looking at the use of the IRS.

I want to read something into the record here.

If we regulate it to the point that we eliminate all possible risk, we will raise the price of the product;

You have the value of a statistical life. What is the value of the life lost? You put a number on that.

So unpacking all of those costs made it immediately clear that eliminating the tail risk was going to be far too costly.

No one, including Russia, should think they can murder people with chemical weapons and get away with it.

Russia's actions are a betrayal of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and UN Security Council Resolution 2118.

Russia has not attempted to negotiate in good faith and has done nothing to satisfy our concerns or those of our allies.

I guess my final point--and this is why I think Congress has to act.

I think we need to point out that fact.

We bear responsibility.

I do have a chart which I will enter in the record.

I want to quick interject here because I need to help our hearing moving forward to really get clarity on the whole judicial process here.

What we are trying to do in this Committee is look at that one specific problem and try and fix that on, I would call it, a nonpartisan basis.

I do not think that is an acceptable state of affairs.

I think it is pretty obvious that there are both push and pull factors at work here in terms of why people come to this country.

The Obama Administration recognized that was a problem, and so they began detaining families so they could adjudicate the claims.

This is just an ongoing problem, and, again, I would argue there are certainly things in our laws that have created an incentive for children to come in unaccompanied from Central America.

We really do need to take a look at alternatives to detention, take a look at research, take a look at the cost-effectiveness of that.

I think a sovereign nation needs to do that--enforce our immigration laws, maintain reasonable asylum standards, and also keep asylum-seeking families together.