If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. It is a real treat, a real pleasure and privilege to want to get host chairman mccaul on campus. He has been chairman of the House Homeland Security committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now, focused on a whole host of National Security issues and also chairs his committee in a , whichly bipartisan way is very true to the issues that our country faces on national and Homeland Security. I will be very brief, which is very, which is very true to the rare for mei will turn it over to the chairman now. Afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia or National Counterterrorism center or you dont immediately think
Good morning. If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. It is a real treat, a real trip pleasure, and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. He has been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time when there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration that he is one of the most prolific and more important, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee and a genuinely i partisan kind of way, which is very true to the issues our country faces on national and Homeland Security. I am going to be reef which is rare for me, since i have never had an unspoken thought but i will turn it over to the chairman. Afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about embers of congress, you do not think cia, you do not immediately think National
We will be these remarks are earlier today and go live now to the internet policy conference this afternoon. We will hear from congressman Bob Goodlatte. We are on a tight schedule, but to introduce our keynote speaker for the first part of lunch come i want to introduce Jeremy Berman who i introduced earlier today. Jeremy created all of this to create an organization that could carry policy where no one really cared about it. To treat everybody as a stakeholder, even if they didnt know it yet and weve had a long time and now is not the case. This is kind of important and thanks to jerry and the other members of the board of directors. I also want to recognize congressman rick white, one of her major programs and a member from the state of washington during that time. Rick, thank you for coming. Our next speaker succeeded, congressman wei. Jeremy berman founded our organization. Hes been a driving force for having deep conversation before anyone thought it was important. Jerry will int
[applause] thank you. It is great to be here maybe you will fall asleep annual Pay Attention for the controversial things so the chairman is a native oregonian coming in a covered wagon to serve in both houses and in 1998 and they lived in hood river with her son anthony. Where he racked up the larger majority and has been chair of the House Energy Commerce with limited jurisdiction since 2016. But there are a few numbers and letters that are important as an amateur radio license. So lets jump right in with the new cycle one of which has to do with the National Security council. The next Generation Network with private risk capital should be nationalized. Owned and operated by the federal government. I dont know if you want to think about that a little longer . [laughter]. So we can expand and be the center for innovation and increased conductivity. When i wrote about this issue yesterday when it broke, the first thing that came to mind obviously we care about the security of their net
Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Todays hearing is the first of two on Emergency Alert systems. The near future will ho