Jeanne Shaheen

Should legislation include best practices? Should it include a standard by which sectors should operate?

Are there other ways in which we are encouraging other industries and the private sector to adopt those standards?

One of the challenges, and I think we talked a little bit about this when I visited the NCCIC, where the NPPD operates and where you all are working, is how to quantify what the challenge is and how to track what is happening in a way so…

Now, through this hearing, we hope to focus on DHS's role in protecting the Nation from cyberattacks.

We can only grow so fast because we don't have the personnel, the technology?

Cybersecurity is at the forefront of our national consciousness, and we hear every day about another cybersecurity challenge.

As you point out, we had a fascinating and informative trip to the southern border.

It is critically important that we in the government share among ourselves whatever information we have about cyber threats.

One of the things that you talked about when I visited the NCCIC was the fact that part of what you were looking for in this year's appropriation was to be able to anticipate and get ahead of cyber threats.

Mr. Ozment, is the Senate covered?

The private sector, writ large, is not where it should be.

DOD works very closely with its interagency partners to ensure that it is building and implementing a whole-of-government approach to cybersecurity.

I very much appreciate that and look forward to your coming up for the ribbon cutting.

My understanding is there were a class of workers who did in fact get their wages raised.

I wonder is it common practice for DOL to change rate classification in the middle of a construction project like that, and then to backdate the contract?

Thank you for being here and for your service.

I understand there are aggressive deadlines for implementing the Act that require competitive bidding to operate the one stop career centers.

I just want to be reassured that the operating costs to begin enrolling students on the target date of this July are in fact in the budget.

What do you mean by a non-trivial potential?

I would encourage you to do that.

I read with great interest the President's recent executive order planning for Federal sustainability in the next decade.

I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the potential that you see in thermal biomass and what the role of DOE can be in promoting that or encouraging its use.

And can you talk about the role of the Department of Energy in encouraging, looking at the use of thermal biomass throughout the Federal Government?

Hopefully, we will act with more sanity in this budget cycle.

When we passed the America Invents Act in 2011, one of the selling points was that that was supposed to expedite the patent process.