Jerry McNerney: “I appreciate that. I thank the panellists, too, especially Mr. Morrison. I appreciate the firefighters taking initiative…”

This much-needed bill would authorize the FTC to establish an office of technologists staffed with more than two dozen experts on information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, and related fields.

The need to address growing cyber threats is something that I have been talking about for years.

The ransomware attacks at the Colonial Pipeline and the massive hack detected by SolarWinds are wake-up calls about the increasing cyber threats we now face.

I want to make sure that our communities have some amount of Federal protection from what might happen.