Eric Swalwell

CIRCIA was borne out of crisis.

Although Congressman Payne did not sit on this subcommittee, he had an important impact on CISA, the agency we oversee.

As one recently told me who was a Fortune 100 CISO, he said, when an attack happens now, rather than respond to the attack, the first thing that you do is, you huddle all of the lawyers, and you're losing precious response time because…

I would like to thank the Chairman for giving the subcommittee the opportunity to hear from the private sector on CISA's proposed cyber incident reporting rule--the agency's most significant undertaking since it was established.

I commend my colleagues, especially Ms. Clarke on this committee, and the witnesses here today for the work they're putting in to getting CIRCIA across the finish line.

I also share Chairman Garbarino's frustration with duplicative cyber incident reporting requirements, particularly with the SEC's unworkable rule and unrealistic rule.

I thank the Chairman for giving our subcommittee an opportunity to hear from the private sector on CISA's proposed cyber incident reporting rule which is the agency's, frankly, most significant undertaking since it was established.

I hope we can continue to work together with the private sector and on this committee to do big things like passing important legislation that will improve how the Federal Government collaborates with the private sectors by authorizing the…

Again before I close, I'd like to ask unanimous consent that the Congresswoman from New York, Yvette Clarke, be permitted to participate in today's hearing.

I'd also like to congratulate CISA on the publication of the NPRM. It's an important milestone and an enormous undertaking.

Personally, Congressman Payne and I were both elected in the class of 2012. I sat next to him on this committee for all of my going-on-12 years in Congress. He will be greatly missed by Members of this committee, as we send out our most…

It's not actually about proving a first amendment violation. What the Republicans want to do with this Committee... is they want to chill the government from actually interacting with the private companies as we come on an election in…

The Government is entitled to speak for itself.

It is an example of the Biden Administration doing the work that a President has been elected to do, to keep Americans safe.

These conspiracy theories were downright dangerous.

Instead, our Republican colleagues want to rehash old culture wars and sow mistrust in public health...

How can we do that if our leaders don't embrace basic steps to keep people safe and healthy in extraordinary circumstances?

From experience in my community, I know that our public health leaders' decisions, especially early on in the pandemic, saved countless lives.

It's these very efforts to keep people safe that our MAGA colleagues want to paint as tyrannical here today.

I find it very disturbing that the majority in its effort to cast legitimate public health measures as tyranny, just showed a very misleading video in which they also tried to blame the Biden Administration for actions which were…

Instead, they're proving, yet again, that their supposed passion for limited government is, in fact, a passion for imposing the political and religious views of a noisy far right majority on all Americans.

At a time when a majority of the public, 62 percent, disapproves of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, Congress must pass the Women's Health Protection Act to enshrine this fundamental freedom into law.

Well, again, Mr. Secretary, thank you for what you do. We are grateful that you are in the chair that you are in.

We seem to go wherever the former President wants us to go, if that is on border policy, if that is on funding Ukraine.

It seems like it was more the former President wanted us to do this and so Speaker Johnson did it.