Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the en bloc package which includes my amendment, Langevin No. 129, to the Financial Services and General Government Division. I would like to begin by thanking Chairman Quigley of that subcommittee for his support of the amendment and my good friend and fellow Cyberspace Solarium Commissioner, Congressman Mike Gallagher, for cosponsoring the amendment. Mr. Speaker, this is a simple amendment. It increases funding for the Office of the National Cyber Director to $25 million, the full amount recommended by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission which was created in last year's NDAA. Its charge was to create an overarching strategy to better protect the United States against cyberattacks of significant consequence. Creating the position of the National Cyber Director has been a passion of mine for more than a decade. It finally happened last year, and I have long argued that we need a head coach to coordinate all of the various cyber players in the Federal Government, and the NCD does just that. Chris Inglis, who started earlier this month, is the Nation's first Senate-confirmed National Cyber Director, and he is exactly the right person to ensure that we effectively implement a national cyber strategy to protect us from the ever-growing threats that we face in cyberspace. But, Mr. Speaker, he can't do his job without an office to support him.…”