Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), the distinguished chairwoman of the committee and my friend, and I thank the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), the distinguished ranking member and my friend for bringing this bill to the floor. With respect to Mr. Comer's comments, I just say, ``Hear, hear.'' He has succinctly explained both the process and the importance of this bill. This is the sixth time the House will have passed this bill in some form. The Senate has yet to ever consider it on the floor. As Mr. Comer indicated, the time has now come for the Senate to accept a bill that has been worked out with the Senate in terms of the language so that we can get this important piece of Federal IT into law. This bill would create a statutory framework for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, originally established administratively back in 2011. This bill will codify FedRAMP and was the very first bill, as Mr. Comer indicated, to pass the House in the 117th Congress. It passed, I believe, unanimously. If once again passed, this will be, as I said, I believe, the sixth time we have considered it here in the House of Representatives. FedRAMP is a standardized approach that brings our government in line with our increasingly digital world to continually certify and assess the security of cloud computing technologies used across the Federal Government.…”