Response. Ill invite you all to sit down now. So joining me on stage pardon me just a moment while i adjust this. First off we have congresswoman diana deget of colorado. She is a senior democrat on the house energy and commerce committee, ranking democrat on the oversight investigation subcommittee. She cosponsored coauthored the 20th century cures act which put a billion dollars of new general funds into the Opioid Epidemic to combat it. She is the chief deputy whip of the Democratic House democratic caucus. Thank you very much, congresswoman. Senator ed markey is here, of massachusetts, democrat, and member of the Senate Commerce committee which has broad jurisdiction over private industry including the pharmaceutical industry. He has done numerous investigations and authored numerous pieces of legislation to address this crisis. Hes going to talk quite a bit about that. Last but not least, chairman greg walden is with us today, of oregon, republican of oregon. He is he has drawn at
I am a fellow, prod to have you all here, and also i am one of your two cohosts from representing the school of Public Policy and Public Administration, where we prepare lots and lots of wonderful students for federal service as well as service in a variety of part of the public and nonprofit sector. Im delighted to be here for several reasons. Good to see a lot of my old friends. With 12 of our faculty are not the fellows. At least a couple of us are here at this sort of midsummer, a lot of people at the beach and its great you all are you. Its an important topic, and we are delighted to be here to invite you to host, and also its wonderful always to see gene dodaro. Just a couple months ago i was up on this stage giving, being part of the arthur awards commission to give gene a Lifetime Achievement award. I dont know if you know that but he was an Arthur Flemming award winner very early in his career. Its an award that goes to federal leaders early in their career, and as i said it w
In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as
We recognize, we cant do it alone. This goes to the staffing issues. Theres going to be in National Guard component. Theres going to be another sector component to it. The dhs component to it. A Law Enforcement component so bringing the whole Community Together for response to Cyber Threats is a great lesson out of the ukraine. Two things i wanted to put a fine point on. One, the physical cyber convergence, the attack surface growing exponentially. When we Start Talking about the internet of things and the internet of everything, making security into the design of architecture becomes that much more important. Secure coding and the like. And i might note that one of the greatest deterrence and ive been an outspoken critic that we havent really articulated a cyber deterrence strategy and i think we in essence blame the victim. We blame entities rather than penalize and put pain and cost on the perpetrator but thats a longer conversation but maybe one of the best deterrence is the abilit
Budget. Great nations do great things. And fortune favors the bold. The next several years will determine whether american astronauts will be the first to plant a flag on mars. We want them to have arrived there on board an orion crew vehicle propelled by the space launch. I want to comment on the handout that weve all seen by the administration called nasas journey to mars by regrettably, however, this proposal contains no budget. It contains no schedule, no deadlines. Its just some real pretty photographs and some nice words. That is not going to do it. That is not going to get us to mars. This sounds good, but its actually a journey to nowhere until we have that budget and we have the schedule and we have the deadlines. And i hope the administration will change its posture and decide in the future that it is actually going to support sls and orion and keep them on schedule, because their proposals to cut sls and orion every single year is not helping us achieve the great goals that