Very much and welcome back from lunch. If those who are in the exhibit hall, if you could begin to move back, we would greatly appreciate it. I want to give a special thanks to Northrup Grumman. So Jennifer Walsmith and chris valentino, i know, are here. If you could raise your hands . Jennifer is here and chris from Northrup Grumman, i want to give a special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. I also want to applause applause thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be september 8th and 9th, 2020. We also have Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership C
Officials. The house judiciary hearing runs about two and a half hours. The committee on judiciary welcomthe judiciarywill come to. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The committee on judiciary welcomethe judiciarywill come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone this to this mornings hearing on securing americans election part two oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held apart one of the series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses have been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that our nations elections are under attack. The former director on the National Security council under both president clinton and president george w. Bush warned we must take bold, decisive and expeditious steps to address the Cyber Threats
Americans election part two oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held apart one of the series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses have been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that the nations elections are under attack. The former director on the National Security council under both president clinton and president george w. Bush warned we must take bold, decisive and expeditious steps to address the cyber threats. We must treat elections activity as an imperative for safeguarding our democracy. Secretary of state from the commonwealth of pennsylvania and moderated elections activity is a race without a finish line and our adversaries are not slowing down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Last month the director of National Intelligence testified about the foreign actors wouldve viewed by 2020 u. S. El
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac officers, getting them security clearances, it has some pieces in there around Public Disclosure. When an election system is hacked, releasing that information when appropriate to the public. It has some Public Disclosure around the specifics and unclassified version of what happened in 2016. It has some language in there for hardening of systems and this is where i think we might get the gettest bang for our buck is hardening our systems for 2020 and creating an accountability trail so we can do what i think laura said which is when there is when they are able to get into your systems or when they are able to be a presence in the system, whether or not they changed the tabulations or changed voter registration, that leaves people open and vulnerable to the Information Operations that is the second wave of that. And so i think those pieces are likely to become law. They are and the mos
All right, good evening, everyone. My name is liz artlip and i would like to welcome you to the wharf. Pick up those notes, if you havent done so silence your cell phones. Feel free to keep them on, tagus on social media, just do it silently. We have cspan booktv with us and you dont want to be the one whose phone starts ringing on national television. When we get to the q a portion i will be passing around a wireless microphone. If you have a question please raise your hand and wait for us to get you with the microphone and sneak into it so everyone can hear you and everyone who might be watching on tv in the future can hear you as well. If youve not purchased a copy of the book and you would like to they are available at the register up friends. You can buy a copy or two or three or four, however many you decide you need, hopefully more than one. After the events, happy to sign books, now first for why we are here, to listen to george beebe talk about the russia trap how our shadow w