Ted Lieu

My view is if people want the Postal Service to run like a business, they need to give it tools to make it run like a business.

It seems to me it would make a lot more sense if we eliminated money bond and instead went to a risk-assessment system.

I hope someone from the Haitian Government watches this hearing because now they have got bipartisan outrage about the Government of Haiti.

So we are the largest Federal aid donor in history to Haiti.

It is my belief that the bond system is in drastic need of reform in the United States.

When you attach for-profit money to that system, it warps it so that judges, I think, don't do their proper risk assessment.

I find it disrespectful that they did not come here to testify and it insinuates that they have something to hide.

We recommend that, regarding encryption, the U.S. Government should fully support and not undermine efforts to create encryption standards.

We should not sacrifice U.S. national security, nor our economy, so that some law enforcement investigations can be made easier.

In this case, Juniper made firewalls to try to prevent important information from going to foreign governments.

If this is something we could follow up with your office to see if you could let us know about how many attacks we're experiencing?

Let me switch to cybersecurity.

What can this committee or Congress do to help on data-blocking?

I am pleased to see we are taking a different approach this time, and America is finally starting to realize that drug addiction is primarily a disease.

We certainly heard plenty of reports about the use of it to gain a competitive advantage.

the number one issue is still the failure to pay enough attention to this issue, among many, many companies.

While I agree that government regulation is not as nimble as technology, we still need some combination of regulations and enforceable guidance to protect the public.

Regulation done wrong or too little regulation makes it difficult to protect the public and ensure that data flows freely.

To me, this is negligence bordering on deliberate indifference.

There is no excuse for that. Someone needed to have yelled and screamed and said stop this. People are being poisoned.

And if they want more money to do the IT system upgrades and so on, where would that money come from?

the U.S. Government needs to change the culture of cybersecurity

And taking a step back, what is the reason for not continuing with the Federal Investigative Services? Why do we need this new bureau?

last year's OPM data breach was the most significant government cybersecurity breach we have ever uncovered

And last October, Representative Russell and I wrote a letter to the administration to the PAC board saying you need to move the security clearance IT system to the Department of Defense.