The bill Senator Casey and I introduced, called The National Critical Capabilities Defense Act, would safeguard our critical supply chains.

Our government must take a balanced, innovative approach to this competition, for we cannot rely on the paradigms of the past to build that approach.

This legislation would prevent the importation of specific products that contain intellectual property stolen via economic espionage.

What can we be doing at the Federal level to ensure that people know that the COVID-19 vaccine is available at no cost?

Anecdotally, I am hearing, for instance, from some workers in long-term care facilities that they do not want to risk losing wages.

we also need to encourage more State and local investment in cybersecurity

I do believe it will, because I believe that we could do more planning, more coordination, and really work better with the local governments and the small business to bring everybody up to a level that we want them to be.

the Federal Government should be able to waive the cost share requirement in certain limited circumstances

I think we all recognize, just as we stated earlier, about the very public threats and confidential, where they come in and seize operations or stop operations from happening.

I think that is really going to be critical to us.

When we close I would like you to think about one piece of advice each of you would give to your colleagues working in State, county, local, or Tribal government when it comes to cybersecurity.

We really need such a program, again, when I think about our small cities and how this would not just help them with funding but help them with the kind of coordination that you talked about.