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.

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.

For CISA to be effective, it needs access to information about cyber attacks and greater visibility around those threats.

It has been 6 years since Congress passed the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 to incentivize voluntary private-sector participation.

I applaud your decision earlier this year to require State Homeland Security Program and Urban Area Security initiative grantees to dedicate at least 7.5 percent of their award to enhancing their cybersecurity posture.

I am extremely concerned about the rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks targeting our critical infrastructure.

Do you agree that the vulnerability of our State and local governments to cyber attacks is a National security threat?

I am working on legislation to close both of those gaps.

We have asked CISA to do an enormous job, but we have given them next to no regulatory authority over privately-owned critical infrastructure.

I will also echo the Chairwoman's disappointment and our Ranking Member's disappointment that the FBI declined our invitation to participate in today's hearing.

We need private-sector critical infrastructure to step up, not just by investing in their own cybersecurity, but also by partnering with the Federal Government.