That hearing convinced me that Congress must act to ensure the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) receives timely cyber incident information from critical infrastructure owners and operators.

Good afternoon. I would like to thank the witnesses for participating in today's hearing on the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2021.

At the hearing, I asked whether we would benefit from implementing a mandatory cyber incident reporting framework.

The State and Local Cybersecurity Improvement Act (H.R. 3138) introduced by Chairwoman Clarke and Ranking Member Garbarino will provide funding to ensure State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments are securing their cyber environments.

But without a capable cyber work force, all of our investments in tools and data will be in vain.

The number of high-profile cyber incidents over the past year has emphasized just how essential cybersecurity has become.

But without a capable cyber workforce, all of our investments in tools and data will be in vain.

I am encouraged by the momentum, and I am committed to putting more resources in the hands of State and local governments.

The previous administration's failure to act on climate change is exactly why it is so important that Congress takes bold action now to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the American public from future climate impacts.

I am astonished that when the Trump administration in 2018 took unprecedented steps to ignore science and remove the term climate change entirely from FEMA's strategic plan.

The plain and simple truth is that climate change has fueled a troubling rise in extreme weather disasters and events over recent decades making FEMA's job of protecting Americans more critical, yet more challenging than ever before.