Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we
Government doing those things. Among those many protections can be found provisions of the bill of rights, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States constitution. A Fourth Amendment reminds us, its our right, our fundamental inalienable rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and any warrants have to be backed by probable cause and any probable causebased warrant has to include with particul particularity, a description of the places and persons to be searched and to be seized. This is a tradition that reaches not just back a couple of centuries, it reaches back much farther than that. It has its origins not only in our own country, but in our mother country, in the united kingdom. By the time john wilks was serving in parliament in the 1760s, there had been a long established tradition and understanding in fact, a series of laws ena enacted to make sure that warrants were not abused and to make sure that the rights of english subjects would not be infringed
Pandemic, essential workers in the United States have continued in their daily jobs to care for and protect americans, to produce and deliver food and essential goods, and to uphold our nations Critical Infrastructure. These men and women, our moms and dads, brothers and sisters, are putting the livelihoods of their fellow americans ahead of their own. Each and every morning despite the pandemic, they wake up and they go to work. In this fight against the invisible enemy, the critical logistics operators, the supply workers, medical professionals, and many others who are on the front lines responding to coronavirus could not be more important to our victory. They truly are our heroes. Folks, our nation cannot weather this pandemic without our essential workforce. They first and foremost deserve our gratitude. So today we want to say thank you. Thank you to our doctors, our nurses, and our Health Care Workers who see firsthand the seriousness of this disease yet put their own health and
Danielle brian here talking about the president s decision to fire inspectors general. Lets go over the role of the inspector general. A small price to pay in a 3 trillion bill. Announcer washington journal continues. Danielle brian here talking about the president s decision to fire inspectors general. Lets go over the role of the inspector general. Why do we have them and when did they begin . After watergate in the Church Committee hearings, which your viewers who are informed will remember were investigations into overreach and wrongdoing in the intelligence community. Creatingpassed a law these inspectors general in each of the agencies. 78y have expanded to inspectors general across the federal government. They are part of the executive branch but they are unique in that while reporting to the head of the agency, they report directly to congress. Host live now to a meeting of the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, holding a hearing on protecting frontline and essentia
Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense