Eric Swalwell

Federal agency networks house our most sensitive information. It is no surprise that our most formidable adversaries, like Russia, China, and Iran, routinely try to gain access to them.

The good news is we have made tremendous progress in recent years.

Great. I thank you the Chairman for holding this important hearing and also keeping it.

I agree with the Chairman that a CR also is a nightmare, that you all need long-term certainty in planning.

By setting new security standards for the Federal Government, we will drive security improvements throughout the marketplace that mean better security for everyone.

At a time when there are conflicts in multiple parts of the world, I cannot comprehend how anyone could think it is a good idea to reduce our support for cyber defense.

Unfortunately, last month, half of the House Republican Conference, including Chairman Green and the new Speaker, voted to cut CISA's budget by 25 percent.

The bad news is we cannot wait for another crisis to spring into action.

President Biden's Executive Order 14028 finally set the Federal Government on the path toward adopting modern cybersecurity best practices.

Nearly 3 years ago, Congress authorized the Office of the National Cyber Director to develop and implement a National Cyber Strategy.

Federal agency networks house our most important and sensitive information, and it's no surprise that adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others are routinely trying to access them.

We all should think about the space that must be created, once the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is addressed, to create a two-state solution.

As Israel defends itself, which it has an absolute right to do, they also have a responsibility to protect and look out for innocent life.

I want to absolutely, in the harshest way, condemn the terrorism committed by Hamas. Period.

The Honorable Eric Swalwell, a Representative in Congress From the State of California:

Our diversity is our strength, but our unity is our power, as our former speaker said.

They need to get their act together and get back to work.

You don't give the keys to a luxury car to people who are going to crash it.

We have to keep showing competence, keep showing community, and contrast it with chaos on their side.

They think it's tragic and they look at the failures that MAGA GOP has put upon us, and they see this bucket of crabs that keeps trying to pull the rest of the country down into the chaos that they crave.

Well, it's the right decision because he's brought chaos to the country and it's the first time in nine months, Anderson, where I've seen him put the country in front of his own job.

He needs to choose the country over one criminal, Donald Trump. He needs to choose competence over chaos, and he needs to choose for the first time in his life to be a leader rather than a spectator speaker.

Again, I'm here, I'm ready to work. Democrats are ready to give the votes, you know, to keep the government open. But right now, Republicans, you know, they have failed to protect, they've failed to fund and they failed to govern. They are…

Well, it was a snub of Zelenskyy who wanted to address the full Congress. It only helps Putin because Putin sees that there's the potential that funding could run out and so he'll grind this war out as long as he can.

He can be a spectator speaker, or he can be a leader and a leader would go to Democrats, just as Mitch McConnell and Senator Schumer have done in the Senate and say, give us the votes to keep the government open, I'll put it on the bill…