Live on capitol hill, the House Appropriations committee working on 2021 spending levels today. One of the measures they are working on his defense spending. 694. 6 billion, an increase of 1. 2 billion from 2020. Congressman a nita lowey chairs the committee. I will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee of appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of business is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal. Ear 2021 thank you madam chairwoman. Remarks, igin my reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. He saved the conditiona
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Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of witnesses. A collection of expertise to help us make sense of what the chinese, and his partys doing in cyberspace and i can better defend ourselves. Our hats off we spent a lot of time on this committee debating or thinking about the question of whether xi jinping will make a move militarily against taiwan. And what would be a timeline for such a move . Obviously this is a nun on noble question people continue to debate it. In some meaningful sense i wonder if such an invasion or a preparation which would be incredibly costly if the Ranking Member very eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. The intelligence preparation of the battle space has already begun. Put differently for over 20 years they have been attacking us the government, defense Contractors Technology firms in cyberspace that is a fact. For a long time the attacks rubbing a valuable technology that was then used
Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and