Will Hurd

It is because of organizations like the San Antonio Food Bank that individuals can focus on issues important to their family instead of worrying about putting food on the table.

The lack of healthy habits and fresh food consumption pose a direct threat to the state of wellness in the United States.

The proposal could make communicating about security vulnerabilities almost impossible in certain cases.

We've got to know what the threat is, and this is why I think this creation of the Auto-ISAC is important.

I agree. The hype likely does understate the full potential, but only if policymakers, industry, consumers, privacy advocates, and other stakeholders understand where real value can be created and focus on supporting innovation and…

Federal CIOs and agency heads need to be implementing the recommendations of the IGs and GAO or be able to explain to me and this committee why they didn't.

You do not want to be before this committee explaining to the American people how you left a PII of the sons and daughters of millions of Americans vulnerable to hackers.

This is not an issue of technology. This is an issue of management and leadership.

This should be movement. This is the baseline, and if we are not seeing movement, I think these conversations are going to grow a little bit more uncomfortable.

Ultimately, FITARA is an effort to ensure that agencies are buying and developing technologies in an efficient way.

Information technology is the infrastructure of our future. It is supposed to make life better.

Since I was elected to Congress, the Federal Government has spent more than $525 billion on IT, and it doesn't work.

We cannot afford to keep on spending to the tune of $80 billion a year and perpetuating outdated legacy technologies.

It is clear the Federal Government needs to do a better job at prioritizing funding for modernization and expansion.

When we talk about border security, we can secure our border and facilitate the movement of goods and services at the same time.

It's shocking that a doctor in San Antonio, Texas, can't have one computer on their desk that accesses both the DOD records and the VA records.

I disagree a little bit with some of your opening remarks that there is a conflict in our values.

Like you in your opening remarks, I hope the Senate sends us a bill so that we can, you know, reconcile those differences and get something to the President to sign, because cybersecurity is important.

I think GSA's requirements don't take into account the unique challenges that law enforcement has to deal with, nor folks on the border.

If you allow the good guys to have access to the back door, then you are allowing the bad guys to have access to the back door.

To think that, if you would have asked me then that there wouldn't be a major attack on our homeland for over 14 years, I would have said you all were crazy.

$3 million to get 24 Federal agencies to map 56 pieces of information to a single database does not require 2 years and $300 million.

The DATA Act will allow anyone from public policy experts and journalists, to academics and average citizens, even Members of Congress, such as myself, to untangle the web of Federal agency receipts, appropriations, obligations, allotments…

Mexican energy reforms would not only greatly benefit their national economy, but would greatly benefit ours as well.

This do as I say, not as I do mentality is an affront to the American people and leaves our Federal agencies and the PII of millions at risk.