Gerry Connolly

As our problems are new, we must think anew and act anew.

We cannot and we will not give up on Metro.

I look forward to working with you and Ms. Mace on your legislation as well.

I mean to me, this was one of the most self-inflicted wounds any great power could ever administer to itself.

What is a country like, for example, Vietnam to do absent the protective umbrella TPP would have provided?

This 15-percent threshold, I think, too many people seems very arbitrary.

So again, let me just interpret what I am hearing you say. So, you are taking direct issue with Theresa Hull and her assertion that you only complied with two of the 26 requests.

Dr. Stein, the question is really simple. You just heard Theresa Hull say that out of 26 documentation requests, you only complied with two of them. Why is that?

I commend the chairwoman for having this hearing and for updating us on what, if any, progress has been achieved.

Everything we do sits on an IT platform, and yet the lack of awareness of that by Members of Congress... was--you know, told us we still have a lot of work to do in educating ourselves and our colleagues about the criticality of IT.

The fact that it took 12 years to update FISMA, you know, and another seven years to have a hearing about it, I don't think speaks well about the legislative branch and the priorities we put on information technology and its security.

I do think we in Congress need to take responsibility for the fact that, frankly, this is a much neglected subject.

Ensuring the cybersecurity of our Nation is critical, protecting taxpayer data and dollars.

Thank you so much, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you for elevating this issue to the full committee level.

We cannot engage in magical thinking. There's a difference between what we want and the reality we face.

I completely--I mean, metrics are key to measuring effectiveness, fraud, you name it.

I would not make any apology for Congress asserting its right to limit executive politicization of the H.R. agency of the Federal Government.

The President does not have unbridled power. He or she is not a king or a queen.

I do think it's a tool, as Mr. Thomas indicated from NARFE, in a much larger challenge that we face, the Federal Government.

I think you're thinking about this in the right way. It's about productivity. It's about employee diversification. It's about employee success.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses today about the steps the Biden administration has taken to combat ransomware attacks.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill...provides more than $1 billion of vital investments that will assist both private and public entities affected by major cyber events.

The ramifications of ransomware permeate our economy, public health infrastructure, and national security.

I find the word 'chutzpah' is appropriate at this moment, given the fact that our Republican friends for four long years resisted any meaningful oversight of the Trump years.

It is a torturously long process when we have to rely on other branches of government to enforce our subpoenas.