All right. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing. The future of electricity delivery, modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but i have read history about what it was like when we first started building the electric grid over a century ago now. I dont think we could have imagined the technologies that we would use to power or homes and businesses and hospitals and everything today. And i think the challenge is different, you know, back then the real challenge was just extending power itself throughout every corner of our society, and there was a challenge which was that those providing power knew they could make money in the cities in well Populated Areas in places with a lot of business and commercial opportunities, but it was not as p
Subcommittee will not come to order. The chairman will now yield five minutes to my great friend. From california. Five minutes. Thank you for getting me the five minutes. I think the witnesses for coming this morning. The incredibly important issue when it came out and make good policy on. We are meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy infrastructure. We continue to see increasing threats to the grade originally both the home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and others taking steps to address the growing dangers followed by nefarious actions. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy. Touching every aspect of our life. A reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security. We can improve the security and reliability of our missions electric grid. We must work on a bipartisan basis and integrates with Industry Leaders as we are doing here. Fortunately the modernization and integration of our Energy Infrastr
That is the creation of wealth. Some time ago i was visiting one of the wineries in my district in california and i was talking about this make it in america agenda in manufacturing. And finally the owner got up from behind the desk and he said, come, i want to talk to you. He said, we walked outside, out to his winery, and he said, you know what this is . I said, yeah, its a winery. He said, no, this is a manufacturing facility. I take grapes and i turn them into some of the finest wine in the world. So when you talk about make it in america, guess what, im making it in america. So it includes all of these things. Putting a tomato into a can, into a bottle of ketch up. Or what were going to talk about tonight is something far more than that. I want to really not so much talk about these gentlemen and ladies, but to use them as an example of what america used to make. These gentlemen, three of them, are world war ii merchant mariners. This was an effort we had now under way to provide
Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to migrate friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We continue to see increasing threats to the grid originating both at home and abroad. Im glad to see the doe and ferc and others taking steps to address the growing dangers posed by nefarious actors. Our energy grid serves as the backbone of our economy Touching Every aspect of our lives and a reliable grid is also crucial to our National Security and for a clean energy future. For lawmakers to encourage
Of ukraine, this conflict between russia and nato will be just one step away from a full scale world war ii. Hello and welcome live from tehran, youve turned to press tvs world news and marzia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, first or it takes us back to the gaza strip of course where the Israeli Regime has again hit the alshafah medical complex, killing and wounding number of palestinians, the Gaza Health Ministry says at least 31,726 palestinians have been killed since october the 7th, our corresponding muty abu musab brings us the details. The israeli occubition forces conducted a blades offensive against the ashifa medical complex over the last night where hundreds of the israeli tanks and the Israeli Forces moved uh in a swift attack against the compound uh amid the heavy gunfire and the continuous bombardments at least 40 consecutive israeli air strikes hit the compound the buildings the yards and even the surrounding areas of. The shifa compound knowing that thousands