The safety of workers in meat-packing plants is certainly something I and many others have been concerned about during the pandemic.
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I appreciate the question by Representative Fortenberry, the ranking member.
Great. Well, can you commit that you will make this a top priority? I just think it is important to resolve this for once and for all.
I really appreciate your deep level of understanding of engaging farmers and the importance of being our partners in climate change.
I was pleased to see that you agree that the Chinese Communist Party uses these institutes as an instrument for propaganda.
The only thing worse than fighting with your allies is fighting without your allies.
Industrial policy has a bad name in this country but that is really what China is engaged in.
Disruption would have been easier than what they did. They had focused, disciplined data theft.
I think they have an obligation to cooperate with this inquiry and I hope they will voluntarily do so.
It seems to me that we need to think of how these authorities fit together and what the gaps are to be sure that we have the tools to protect ourselves.
I want the hackers to not be able to go to Monte Carlo as well as Miami.
Some kind of mandatory breach notification is also part of this package.
To the extent that we have the international community and the establishment of some kind of international norms, red lines, guardrails, whatever you want to call them then things like sanctions are much more effective.
I take no pleasure in that. I think that shows how widespread this problem is.
I think deterrence is one of the most important parts of a national strategy and frankly it's one that really hasn't been very well developed in this country.
85 percent of the critical infrastructure in this country is owned by the private sector, and that's one reason that I think mandatory reporting is so critical.
The optics that you mentioned, that has sort of in this context become a bit of a pejorative term.