Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I might consume. Mr. Speaker, let me start by thanking Representative Lieu, a valued member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for his hard work on this bill and on everything else. This important legislation passed the House in the last Congress with strong bipartisan support, and I certainly support passing it again. Mr. Speaker, it is critical that we modernize our government to better deal with 21st century challenges. The State Department is under the constant threat of cyberattack from foreign actors bent on stealing our secrets, disrupting our foreign policy, and undermining our security. Mr. Lieu's bill will help shore up the State Department against this sort of intrusion. First, it requires the Secretary of State to get out ahead of this problem. Instead of waiting for the next attack to happen, this bill would mandate a plan for researchers to actively seek out and report vulnerabilities. Secondly, this bill launches a new initiative, the so-called ``bug bounty program.'' This seeks to tap the expertise of everyday Americans by rewarding citizens who uncover and report security risks in the Department's computer system. It will allow security researchers and friendly hackers to find the cracks in the system so that the Department can patch them. This effort is modeled after a successful program at the Defense Department, which got off the ground in 2016.…”