But we can protect ourselves against something like the Carrington Effect, the 1921 effect, and we can do that for a relatively low cost.
Voluntary is not working so good. From my standpoint, this is something that needs to be addressed.
Seven years later, we have virtually done nothing in terms of some quick fixes that would cost $100,000 per transformer.
So it was just ignored. It was something pretty scary, and we did not want to acknowledge it, so we put our head in the ...
Let us not sit back and go, 'Well, if you cannot protect everything, protect nothing.' Let us start protecting things.
So 7 years later, we have not developed national and regional restoration plans.
the purpose of this hearing is to basically stop and pull our head out of the sand, and start paying attention to this v...
The government has not done anything.
I have raised this in secure briefings with members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and I have been told, ...
Trust me, now I am all about let us not grow the Federal Government, let us not overregulate.
just government does not work, and I think this is pretty obvious.