Jacky Rosen
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Jacky Sheryl Rosen is a United States Senator from Nevada, serving since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Nevada's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2019. Rosen has focused on various issues during her time in office, including healthcare, education, and climate change. She has been an advocate for protecting civil rights and addressing the impacts of climate-related challenges in Nevada.
I have introduced a bill with Marsha Blackburn, the Cyber Ready Workforce Act, to surge up capacity with the Department of Labor (DOL) to award grants to increase access to things like a registered apprenticeship program.
I did have a bill last year to strengthen medical device cybersecurity, the updated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance, and it was included in last year's FDA package and became law as part of the omnibus.
Securing the health care and public health sector we know is critical to protecting our national security.
I just think that it's a really important part of our workforce that we need to continue to see thrive and grow.
Workforce attrition, there is lengthy training periods, there is forced early retirement, coupled with the stop and go funding we have had with sequestration, it really had a lasting negative effect on our air traffic control workforce.
Pilots can't fly without the air traffic controllers managing those runways, right, and all the other things that they look at in the skies.
Increasing the ability for Federal loans for pilots, not only, you know, for everybody to get a more diverse workforce, allow people that traditionally wouldn't be able to get into the workforce ability to get funding is essential.
I did have a bill last year to strengthen medical device cybersecurity, the updated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance.