Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
Leader. I ask unanimous consent that with. Uorum be dispensed without objection. Well, mr. President , i just turned the republican leader say there is no inconsistency between what republicans are amy coney ith confirmation and garlands. Who would believe that . The contradiction is glaring and sustained on the leaders forehead and on the entire Republican Caucus if it continues. Weve heard, we just heard another warped, distorted and History Lesson from leader mcconnell. Defensive he is bout the blatant 180 degree hypocritical turn hes made on Supreme Court nominations. Distorted warped not remove theon will notHistory Lesson remove the stain. Plain and simple. A rare meet here on saturday session because there is nothing, nothing remotely the republican drive to confirm judge barrett Supreme Court only days before president ial election. Four years ago, four years ago, Republican Senate said it was a principle, that word, principle, that Supreme Court justices should not be confirme
And policy. From john hopkins university, this is about 40 minutes. I am honored to be here to launch our quarterly Johns Hopkins form. Schedulingstminute change, the president is unable to join us. We can think of no better person with whom to begin a series of dialogues about policy then dr. Anthony franchi. For millions across the country and indeed the world, dr. Kouji has emerged at this moment as a trusted source. For four decades to make he has exemplified the role of scientist and public servant. During the early years of the aids crisis in the 1980s, dr. Found she was among the first toentists to collaborate advance treatment. He advised president s of both parties in the following decades on every pandemic the world has seen from sars to the asian flu to the ebola. Era, hethe cove it continues to provide the best information to policymakers and the public. A, dr. Couch05 as he revealed the three Guiding Principles of his life. To seek and learn every day. To strive for excell
Importantly i am really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so that it is more responsive to Public Policy needs. We need encryption to protect our email exchanges, our financial transactions, political speech that goes on. We hope privately online what it needs to. Governments for decades have ofn concerned that the use strong Encryption Technology would thwart the ability of Law Enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance. From a technical perspective, we look at that question and while acknowledging that encryption and pose some barriers for the police, we have shown through Technical Research that if you try to force all encryption palpable or have upkdoors, then you will end harvesting the security of the millions of people around the world to use the internet and Computing Technology, so well this is an ongoing debate, even governments trying to control encryption have acknowledged that they should not do so in a way that introduces systemic weaknesses. At tha
Charlie mitchell is the author of a new book. Cyber in the age of trump. The unraveling of Americas National security policy. Before we get into the essence, what gives you a background in cybersecurity . I used to be editor of roll call. I worked at inside washington publishers. We do deep dive coverage into policy areas. Cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We looked at taking a deeper dive into it. We started investigating this and decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that focused on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago, but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who started getting into cyber as a major policy area. It exploded under the Obama Administration. Cutting across so many issue areas. We decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the