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
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 have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order and without objection the chair authorized to declare a recess at any time. Pursuant to the committee rule, the chair announces that she may postpone further proceedings today when a recorded vote is ordered on the question of proving a measure or matter on adopting an amendment. This morning we will consider h. R. 2722, the securing americas federal election act targeted bill to modernize the nations election infrastructure and responded t respond to the g attacks on our democracy. As we all should know and now appreciate ouit nowappreciate od as special counsel mueller said to interfere in our election in the 2016 president ial election. When outsiders meddle in our election if an attack on the country and we cannot release to the Cyber Attacks of the state actors on their own. While we have made progress to bolster our defenses it is clear from the analysis of our Intelligence Community and a host of independent experts from
Protesters forced the government to back down the fight isnt over as of yet later on sunday they will take to the streets once again calling for the proposal to be scrapped entirely the bill would allow criminal suspects to be sent to Mainland China the protesters also want the resignation of hong kong as leader kerry lamb still wants the bill to be passed sometime in the future the protesters also want to apologize for the violence during process earlier in the week the police had fired rubber bullets on some demonstrators muslim says force had become necessary bright now from hong kong after insisting for weeks that she wouldnt and couldnt back down hong kongs leader carry lamb came out to say she was doing just that i now announce that the government has decided to suspend a legislative amendment exercise. The governments attempt to push the legislation through hong kongs parliament the Legislative Council has led to the biggest street protests this city has seen in decades and viol
Seem to what it was only the size of the fund me guess thats not justice just like the never do anything and the machine no he said see if any c. D. s like c. D. s action youre going to get to see him. Off to passing by the Egyptian Embassy the protesters have now ended up outside the embassy of saudi arabia another country that they calling on to stop supporting those in power and a call to them while back home theres a crackdown on protests these people see it as their responsibility to carry on what theyre calling their revolution. Plus also to come here not just here including well tell you how the bona outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is affecting vaccination campaigns for other diseases. And why theres concern about the changing Cultural Landscape of mexico citys neighborhoods that stay with us. Hal or you may have heard that the great lakes are quite high in their water level given the amount of snow we had on right weve had recently and this spinning top here meant