Welcome. We are pleased to have you. The committee will now come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time, pursuant to commit people five and house rule 11. The chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter for adopting reit ant of a recorded vote. Pursuant to notice, i call up the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. ,he clerk will report the bill which was distributed in advance. The federal rotational Workforce Program act of 2019. Without objection, the bill is considered read and open to amendment at any point. I now recognize myself for five minutes. I want to thank my colleagues in the senate. , margaretry peters hassan, and ron johnson, for on the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. The bipartisan bill passed the senate by unanimous consent at the end of april, and i am pleased to consider it today. This measure would create a pro
Before we come to order, i wanted to welcome some student interns who are at Johns Hopkins university visiting my district. Welcome. We are pleased to have you. The committee will now come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time, pursuant to commit people five and house rule 11. The chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter for adopting reit ant of a recorded vote. Pursuant to notice, i call up the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. ,he clerk will report the bill which was distributed in advance. The federal rotational Workforce Program act of 2019. Without objection, the bill is considered read and open to amendment at any point. I now recognize myself for five minutes. I want to thank my colleagues in the senate. , margaretry peters hassan, and ron johnson, for on the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. The bipartisan bill passed
Reform committee came after they approved in number of other measures, including renaming several u. S. Postal service locations. Before we come to order, i wanted to welcome some student interns who are at Johns Hopkins university visiting my district. Welcome. We are pleased to have you. [applause] the committee will now come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time, pursuant to commit people five and house rule 11. The chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter or adopting an amendment where a recorded vote of the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to notice, i call up bill 406 the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. The clerk will report the bill, which was distributed in advance. S406 the federal rotational Workforce Program act of 2019. Without objection, the bill is considered read and open to amendment at any point. I now recognize myself for fi
Patterns, soil moisture, and potentially melting the polar ice caps. There was no legitimate debate over the science when i started in 2012, and there is no legitimate debate over the science today. Indeed the science has only strengthened. And with each passing year, as senator merkley said, we rely less on complicated climate models and on scientific forecasts, and unfortunately more on straightforward real time measurement of the changes. Today we observe with our own eyes what recently was predict predicted, glacial collapse and retreat, Sea Level Rise, arctic warming, and increasingly extreme weather. Another constant since 2012 is the fossil fuel industrys remorseless campaign. A, to block Climate Action and, b, to do this while hiding its hands behind front groups. I have delivered dozens of these speeches about the dozens of climate denial front groups. Indeed weve had whole groups of senators come to the floor to talk about the web of denial that the fossil fuel industry has c
Without objection, the bill is considered read and open to amendment at any point. I now recognize myself for five minutes. I want to thank my colleagues in the senate. , margaretry peters hassan, and ron johnson, for on the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. The bipartisan bill passed the senate by unanimous consent at the end of april, and i am pleased to consider it today. This measure would create a program in which cyber personnel could be detailed to other agencies to develop additional skills and help build fill agency skill gaps. Requireslation would identifying cyber petitions positions eligible for rotation and report those to the office of personnel management. It would be required to distribute a list of the positions available for participation. The bill would require opm, officers andapital the department of Homeland Security to develop an Operational Plan for the program that includes a merit based selection process. Details would be anda maximum of