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

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 am proud to support this bill that sends a clear signal about United States policy with respect to discrimination, especially violent, murderous discrimination against a whole class of people because of their ethnicity and/or religion…

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

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 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 thank my friend, Mr. McGovern, for yielding. Madam Speaker, when I served in local government, I helped to write and pass 14 consecutive budgets. If I learned one thing from that process, it is that budgets are statements of values. When…

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

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.

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.

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

If we're going to do that, we're going to have a resolution that looks at the catastrophic decisions made by the Trump Administration in Doha, Qatar.

Thank you. Yes, the text always helps.

Thank you so much for having this hearing because I think it is time.

Democracy is under threat around the world, and Congress cannot, and must not, stand idly by when a thuggish military blatantly disregards the will of citizens, as happened in Burma in February.

It should. You know, it took 203 years to get the congressional pay amendment, so I think the only argument here is about delay.

I think the Resolution 445 condemning the violence and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the combatants and the conflicts in Northern Ethiopia, it is a tragedy what has taken place there.

So have we not met the standard of the Constitution?

I oppose this amendment because it is unnecessary and overly restrictive and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

I contend, based on this testimony, that the ERA is now an amendment to the Constitution, duly ratified by the 38th state, the Commonwealth of Virginia.