Done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to t
So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1420 to amend the independent energy act to promote Energy Efficiency via information and computing tech nollings and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois, mr. Rush and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. Mr. Rush i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 1420. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois is recognized. Mr. Rush mr. Speaker, i want to thank my friends and colleagues on the energy and Commerce Committee, ms. Eshoo of the great state of california, mr. Kinzinger of my home state of illinois, for working in a bipartisan manner to bring h. R. 1420, the
This morning we heard where we are today with cybersecurity. So, you know, my career in cybersecurity started when i joined the National Security agency and the offensive mission set and that gives you a perspective of how to defend against very advanced actors so the point of this panel this morning is to talk about the priorities but with a focus of how we resist attack. Okay . So on our panel today, we have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are really focused on Important Missions and are critical to the National Security. In my opinion, given my experience i think offense always wins. And with that mindset, i want to take a look at what were doing today and how we can give you all Lessons Learned and some front line knowledge about things to take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, though. Scaling. We all lots of systems. We are certainly dealing with a scale attack surface a
Taking our stuff. We have a mix of commercial Sector Companies working with the government and a mix of government folks that are focused on Important Missions and critical to our national security. In my opinion and given my experience i think offense always wins. With that mindset i want to look at what we can do today and Lessons Learned and front line knowledge things you can take back to your organization and implement. This gets to the heart of the issue, scaling. We have lolts of systems, we are certainly dealing with a scaled attack surface and dealing with adversaries getting more and more advanced and theyre more and more capable over the past five years. You can see here were focussed on i. T. Modernization, spending 95 billion. We have cyber spending going up close to 10 billion. Is it actually working . And we also have a growing talent gap. With these things, i want to put the panelists on the spot early this morning and kick it off. Everybody in two to five sentences or