In 2018, the New Hampshire legislature passed a law requiring the State Department of Education to establish minimum standards for the privacy and security of student data.

These new laws, requirements, right?

Many school districts still view publicly disclosing a cyber incident as taboo, which, unfortunately, keeps the growing problem hidden.

It really harms us all when an individual entity is breached.

I think, the biggest takeaway I hope people watching today or listening to this or reading about it will take is that this is a responsibility that rests with each and every one of us.

I truly appreciate the discussion today. I thank you all for coming before the Subcommittee to discuss what is clearly a really important topic to a lot of us.

It is fair to say that when the spirit of collaboration is working among school districts and among various levels of government and various agencies, there are ways to share experience and share best practices that help each individual…

I am pleased to be part of that bipartisan group in Congress that pushed to reauthorize the Institute.

I take to heart the relationship-building part of it when you speak with task forces post terrorist events, for instance.

Only the Federal Government can do that, in my opinion.

I spearheaded an effort to create a Federal grant program specifically targeted at improving the cybersecurity of State and local governments.

I will say that very clearly.

I rise today to join my colleagues and share my deep concern and outrage regarding Senator Tuberville's decision to block the promotions of hundreds of servicemembers. I want to take a moment and share why I believe this action weakens our…

I was really proud to work with everyone here on a bipartisan basis to develop and pass the PACT Act into law.

If we do not need a veteran to travel to an exam, we should not do that because that is time the veteran has to take off of work.

Many Granite State veterans have contacted my office because they have concerns about how far they have had to travel to get a medical exam for their VA disability claim.

It has already helped over 1,000 New Hampshire veterans enroll in VA health care and file more than 2,000 disability claims.

This is really an important--I am using the term 'customer service' but I do not think it really conveys how important it is, especially if you are somebody with a medical issue or disability, long travel can be really difficult.