Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, while I would like to assume that our Federal employees charged with handling sensitive information will always act responsibly, we cannot control human nature, and, therefore, we cannot control where these DOD systems will be opened up in the public. Further, the DOD facilities themselves protect information from intrusion such as physical break-ins or cyber threats of bad actors seeking access to our information. The security simply cannot be guaranteed in every household of the DOD workforce. I quote the director of a company developing this technology for the Space Force. In an article discussing the software and development, the director stated: You can't just pop your laptop up at Starbucks. Some of the things within that user agreement would be, you know, you are in a closed space, there are no windows, there is no one else home, your cell phone isn't with you, things of that nature. What is being described here is a SCIF, something that DOD personnel only have access to at work and not at home. Outside the office, even equipped with new technologies, there is too much unpredictability for the handling of classified information, and these policies should not be allowed to go forward. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I will make another statement, and then I will yield back my time. Let's be really clear here. This is a total ban on working from home. Now, I will state it again.…”