John Ratcliffe

I am here to tell that I don't think Congress will do that. I say that because some, not all, of my colleagues on the other side like the problem better than they like the solution.

As you know, President Trump has set an agenda that I believe does prioritize the safety and security of the American people.

I think that shows that this administration is serious about prioritizing our defenses against new and emerging cybersecurity challenges.

At age 19, Ralph Hall jumped at the chance to join the Navy, to fly Hellcat fighters during World War II in defense of this Nation. Seventy years later, at the age of 89, he jumped again out of an airplane to honor America's veterans on…

We owe it to survivors and victims of domestic violence, an obligation to ensure that we are not duplicating grants.

We owe survivors of domestic violence a bill that doesn't water down these services for women.

VAWA can and should provide all women a safe harbor who need one.

I can't help but think about and remember all of the women who weren't so fortunate, women whose husbands or boyfriends put them in cemeteries.

We owe them transparency and accountability and support for rigorous evaluations of existing VAWA programs.

Securing election infrastructure is and rightfully should be one of the central priorities of this Congress, and certainly a priority for the American people.

I don't think that Title III of H.R. 1 adequately brings forth solutions that effectively and efficiently addresses the issue of hardening election security, much less do so in a bipartisan manner.

I urge all Members to support this bill to allow this program, which protects and secures our chemical facilities, to continue, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am excited to have the opportunity to hold this hearing with you.

As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security, I have been a vocal advocate for forward-leaning security policies and best practices to safeguard our Nation's transportation systems.

This hearing illustrates my commitment to bringing a necessary focus to cybersecurity in the aviation sector.

I have always said that cybersecurity is National security.

I would like to thank my friends across the aisle, Ranking Member Thompson and Congressman Langevin, for their support of this bill. I would like to thank the ranking member of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee…

We have authorized and funded programs to defend our Federal networks and this subcommittee has performed rigorous oversight over many of them, this Congress.

Now is the time to hold the agency leadership responsible for failures and to rapidly address these known cybersecurity risks.

There is an evident lack of strategy in mitigating risk across our Federal agencies.

This subcommittee is concerned that the Federal Government is not equipped to determine how threat actors seek to gain access to private information.

Cyber workforce gaps and legacy IT systems are vulnerabilities in the Federal Government's cybersecurity posture.

The risk assessments performed by these agencies showed that a lack of threat information results in ineffective allocations of limited cyber resources.

We have to do better than this.

I introduced, and yesterday the full committee passed, the Advancing Cybersecurity Diagnostics and Mitigation Act.