"I thank all the witnesses today. I particularly want to focus my questions with Dr. Beers."
"It was last--way last March that this--a different subcommittee, the Health Subcommittee, had a hearing on disinformation."
"Now, last week I introduced the BENEFIT Act. It is legislation to ensure that patient experience and patient-focused drug development data can be considered as part of FDA's benefit/risk framework for..."
"Today's hearing tackles a growing threat to our national security, economic security, and public safety, and that is ransomware."
"The seriousness of the issue is hard to overstate."
"This attack alone caused massive gas lines, hoarding, and many stations ran out of fuel."
"Last year, more than 560 healthcare organizations...found themselves victims of ransomware."
"Simply put, the time to address this issue is now."
"We simply cannot leave victim organizations on their own when figuring out how to defend against and respond to these cyber criminals."
"But Mr. Reiner has a good suggestion, though, which is to tie it to government grants."
"I really try to do all of my legislation on a bipartisan basis, if I can."
"We really actually wanted to restructure the way we do biomedical research at the NIH, drug and device approval at the FDA."