I think OMB has the ability to ask agencies if they would follow a model similar to that of the Department of State.

I am concerned that the people who work in that office may not have the cyber security qualifications.

Thanks so much for your previous service to our country, and not just for the folks in Virginia, but also in Delaware and the other 48 States.

I appreciate the kind words you have had to say about the legislation we have reintroduced this year.

What were the key elements again, please?

What works at State may not work at Commerce. It may not work in intelligence.

In fact, just last week, the Congressionally-established U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission reported that China is strategically developing offensive capabilities that could be used against us in a future military conflict.

In fact, in 2002, Congress passed what is known as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), to help prevent many of the problems that we are going to be discussing today.

I think we will wrap it up at this point. I have another hearing that started at 9:30 this morning that is still going on on climate change legislation.

In a day and age when we have seen in the first 8 years of this decade, we literally doubled our Nation's debt, we ran it up by another $1.

I suspect you have been following the current debate about whether there ought to be a cyber coordinator.