On the recordOctober 2, 2023
I thank the distinguished gentlewoman from California for her introduction of this legislation with Congresswoman Mace and for her leadership here. The gentlewoman is absolutely right that there are people who may have gotten a college degree and a Ph.D. in some other field but are completely unprepared and unqualified to have a cybersecurity professional's job in the Federal Government, and there are those who never went to college at all who would be excellently prepared based on what their professional and life experience has been. I thank them for moving in this direction, and I hope we can look at some other parts of Federal hiring to make sure we are making equivalent adjustments, so we are getting, as the gentlewoman says, the best candidates. I am wondering--and I would yield to the gentleman for a second, if he knows the answer to this. Is it just a happy coincidence that the acronym for this legislation is the MACE Act? Was that pure coincidence? I don't know. In any event, I congratulate Ms. Mace and Ms. Porter on this excellent legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.
