[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t
Minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government
Its about an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and rans
[background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government itself still store Sensitive Data
In congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states, many are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way of theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so to today were going to k about, our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so writer we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, whats under discussion, and were going to talk about the considerations and possible implications moving forward. So we are lucky to have with us today three exceptional panelists. Youll notice there is one empty seat, and that belongs to trish riley. Unfortunately, because of the crazywet we had in d. C weather we had in d. C. , trish is not going to be able to get boo town, so she will not be with us. But fear not, our three other panelists watch whats happening in the states very closely and will be able to give us a full picture of whats happening. First to my left we have diane rowland, executive Vice P