Jim Langevin

Your candor is very helpful and it helps us to understand the scope of the challenge and what we need to do to get this right.

I think best practices that I have seen in private industry have been around training programs where you actually create test-phishing campaigns.

I share your concern about the clearance process.

I am concerned about the slowdown with the security clearance process as well.

Election security, particularly cybersecurity, is certainly an important aspect of increasing confidence, but it is not sufficient.

Obviously public confidence and the integrity of our elections is a vital component of our democracy.

Obviously this is one of the most important issues that we are facing as a country, has been securing our elections from foreign adversaries that want to try to undermine and sow discord.

Mr. Chairman, I move to adopt Committee Resolution No. 1 concerning the committee rules.

And I have been such a strong advocate about pushing the need for an enterprise cloud solution.

During the roundtable discussion I expressed serious concerns about what I perceived as a disjointed, ad hoc approach by DOD in developing Department-wide AI policies, strategies, and programs.

This year the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee has placed a significant emphasis on how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and associated technologies can be used to advance U.S. warfighting and deterrence…

So I may come back to a couple questions, but I wanted to get this clarified, too.

I am pleased obviously that Secretaries Mattis and Nielsen have recently signed a joint memorandum.

One of the key challenges we face with interagency cooperation is prioritization given limited resources and agencies with different mission sets.

Okay. That is something that we would need to follow up on, and I just want to get a status report.

I want to thank you and Chairman Ratcliffe for convening the joint hearing on such an important topic.

It has been collaborative and bipartisan, and I, too, look forward to continuing our working relationship.

Because cybersecurity requires coordination of activities across agencies, the White House is the best place to locate this function.

An assistant to the President for cyberspace, who directs and is supported by a new office in the EOP--the National Office of Cyberspace.

I remember what happened when a Secretary of Defense Ash Carter started taking a deeper interest in this topic...

I am grateful for the chairman's comments, and I hope we can, as the gentleman said, work together on this, and I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Chair, I withdraw the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The amendment is withdrawn…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 68, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1,000,000)''. Page 68, line 20, after the…

Once again, I would point out to my friend, whom I have deep respect for, that there is precedent for such a change. In 1996, we amended fisheries law to ensure that North Carolina could, in fact, sit on two regional fisheries councils, so…

I want to thank you and Ranking Member Thompson for reaching out to me to facilitate inviting Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea here to the committee for--to hear her testimony and the progress she has made in securing…

I want to point out to the Chairman that the bipartisan PAPER Act that I have introduced with Congressman Mark Meadows contains provisions that will require these kinds of assessments.