mr. lobiondo: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous con sent that all members may have -- consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials for the record on h.r. 3578. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lobiondo: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lobiondo: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of h.r. 3578, first let me begin by thanking some of my colleagues first and foremost. congressman larsen. also congressman beau chon, lew pins -- i will pinsky and graves for their support in introducing this very important bill. before i explain the bill, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record letters of support for h.r. 3578. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. lobiondo: thank you, mr. speaker. 3578 addresses the medical certification process for the pilots and air traffic controllers as it relies -- as it relates

mr. lobiondo. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to our panel for being here today. before i start with a few questions, just kind of a quick comment that i recently turned from another trip to africa, and for all of our men and women, but the director brennan especially for your folks, a very heartfelt thank you for volunteering to be in a very difficult circumstances and some places that are not very nice at all to protect the interest of the united states. very motivating. they are extremely patriotic making great sacrifices, and i know they don't often get thank you for what they do. not very many people know about it, but if you could please pass on our heartfelt thanks for for the great job that they did. >> absolutely, congressman, thank you very much for those kind words. >> i'm interested to have your cake on recent developments in egypt, and whether the muslim brotherhood, we can expect them to have a resurgence if the recent attack there was -- do we believe that's the first of many, or can you give us any idea we

mr. lobiondo. mr. langevin. >> thank you, mr. chairman.thank you for keeping the american people safe and all the work you've done. director clapper, you've mentioned your opening statement and its referenced a couple times now, the important challenges of cybersecurity and the threat it poses to our national security. i will focus on not for a minute. here in the united states we have been working hard to create a cybersecurity framework that effectively defends the nation in particular, our critical infrastructure. is why we are arguably among the global leaders in this regard, clearly much more work needs to be done. director clapper, your statement references cybersecurity as an international problem and i completely agree. i certainly believe the united states has an opportunity to leverage its expertise into leading roles in efforts to come together to tackle this issue. director, can you describe for us the intelligence community's outreach to the international cyberspace community and what more can be done -- what more can we do to