Spencer Cox: “This amendment will specifically include cybersecurity as a function of the Department of Homeland Security. The…”

“This amendment will specifically include cybersecurity as a function of the Department of Homeland Security. The amendment is supported by the Bush administration, and it was crafted with the assistance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce; and, Mr. Chairman, I would like to commend the distinguished gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the distinguished gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell), the ranking member, for their work in putting together this provision. Just this week, the Committee on Government Reform received testimony warning of the significant threat of attacks on our Nation's information infrastructure. We learned how terrorists or hostile foreign states are building the capability to launch computer attacks on critical systems with the aim of severely damaging or disrupting national defense and other critical operations. The Washington Post, in a recent page one story on cyberattacks stated, 'Terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.'”