Mike Rogers

It does two things. Helps our own infrastructure ecosystem, people who are trusted vendors, to do that, No. 1.

Congress needs to pay attention.

Oh, boy, that may be the million-dollar question, Congressman.

I would look at all the ways they're coming at us.

So, Chairman Rogers, can you describe the potential effect a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure like this could have in the United States?

I think it would put us in a better position. I would hate to say 'finally.'

There are--there are countries who are engaged in ramping up their cyber capabilities that might not be friendly to the United States.

We're in a cyber war today. Most people don't realize it.

Security is, I think, a very important discussion Congress is going to have to weigh in on.

Public opinion is probably more with us now than it's ever been to try to defeat this thing.

We need someone who is coordinating our cyber defenses at a time when all of these weaknesses and vulnerabilities have been repeatedly demonstrated by different attacks.

What I find this bill does that I think was different than previous discussions is that it doesn't expand government, which I'm really concerned about, it focuses government.

Every major adversary--China, Russia, North Korea, Iran--are ramping up the use of cyber because they know it has low consequence and high impact.

I can tell you in my work in some of the private work that I do, including being vice chairman of Mitre Corporation, we haven't seen any, you know, flip one vote to another vote. Have not seen that.

It scares me because every day I wake up and see our adversaries making gains in cyberspace.

Those people, respectfully, disregard history, as Congress has helped to guide White House structure in the past when the moment demanded it.

We need a National Cyber Director in the White House to coordinate incident response.

Only within the White House can we break down agency silos to ensure that we have a 'whole of nation' effort to protect our networks.

We need a strong leader in the White House to defeat the inertia that pushes investments in cybersecurity down the road.

Congratulations on truly life's greatest experience of becoming a father, and it is the best job in the world.

I appreciate today's witnesses and the time and attention they have each dedicated to protecting our Nation's information and critical infrastructures.

I look forward to working with each of you to ensure that we strengthen America's cybersecurity against all types of threats.

I want to keep an open mind on the merits of any proposal to improve our national cybersecurity.

We must keep in mind the Trump administration's success in protecting our last mid-term elections from disruptive cyber incidents.

That's the scary part.