Elise Stefanik

I think it is important, when we talk about educational tools for parents, that we provide information about screen time and potential long-term negative impacts of too much screen time at an early age.

I wanted to particularly highlight your testimony, Mrs. Rose. Thank you so much for being here.

Your statement was incredibly powerful to hear from you as a mom, and you are an example for so many parents across this country.

I also want to thank all of the witnesses for your very important and compelling testimony today.

Ranking Member Stefanik, if you think about persistent engagement, I would offer two different components that are very, very important, that are foundational to persistent engagement.

Dictators have that advantage, and their use of technologies and information is as much about exerting control over their own populations as it is confronting free societies like ours.

At present, China and Russia pose the greatest espionage and cyber attack threats, but we anticipate that all our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly build and integrate cyber espionage, attack, and influence campaigns…

President Ghani's message to us was crystal clear, that not having the democratically elected government have a seat at the table during the negotiations nullifies how they could come to a positive outcome.

The democratically elected government is completely excluded from these talks.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work and in the United States, this is the law of the land.

We agree that we need to focus on real wage growth. We agree on the pathway out of poverty.

I look forward to working with Mr. Langevin on it.

As a matter of national security, I strongly encourage the Department to continue to strengthen its partnerships with academia and the private sector.

In August, through Chairwoman Stefanik's leadership, we successfully authorized the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

This committee has taken deliberate bipartisan actions to better organize the Department of Defense.

We have also closely examined our adversaries' investments in AI and related technologies.

AI and machine learning are topics of priority and deep interest among the members of this subcommittee.

Thank you for your patience. The subcommittee will now come to order.

We have heard anecdotally that many of the current interagency cyber relationships have been ad hoc and are based on personal connections.

In September, the President signed an election security executive order that requires the Director of National Intelligence...

The FY19 NDAA authorized a pilot program to provide Department of Defense technical personnel to the Department of Homeland Security to improve critical infrastructure cybersecurity.

DHS has worked hard over the past few years, via the CDM program, to ensure that all internet-enabled devices that connect to a Federal civilian network can be identified and that such devices comply with network policies.

The human element in cybersecurity is a critical weakness and our efforts to date have not been sufficiently effective.

Mr. Rapuano, you are likely aware of the DOD's SharkSeer cybersecurity program, which orchestrates 23 commercial technologies to provide automated cyber defense for the DOD information network.

I thank my colleague and friend, the gentlewoman from Oregon, for her support. As she mentioned, this is a commonsense amendment. It particularly helps first-generation college students access the financial counseling they need. This…