Hearing is two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The commerce science and Technology Transportation committee will come to order. I want to welcome all our witnesses for joining us today. Today is a very important hearing date. We are going to be joined by obviously welcoming back our colleague and former colleagues, senator nelson and his position to be nominated as nasa director, and former colleague senator hutchison who i think is going to join us virtually. So, can think of two more active members, Ranking Member on the committee, so we certainly welcome them. And certainly, we have our former commerce secretary who is going to be joining us virtually. So, it is a very big commerce a day for those of us in the commerce family and longstanding members of the committee to see our colleagues and people weve worked with on so many policy issues and obviously a lot of enthusiasm by members who want to join in and support the nominations and we will be joined
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Colleague and former colleagues both senator nelson in his position to be nominated as nasa director and our former colleague senator hutchinson, who i think is going to join us virtually, i cant think of two more active rankings members on the past in this committee so we certainly welcome them and certainly we have our former commerce secretary whos going to be joining us virtually. So we its a very big commerce day for those of us in the commerce family and longstanding members of this committee to see our colleagues and people we worked with on so many policy issues and obviously a lot of enthusiasm by members who want to join in support of these nominations. So well be joined by a variety of senators here, senator rubio who is with us already. So i want to say welcome to the families, to grace and ann, to all of those who are here to discuss todays nominees. Were covering everything from the digital and natural to the commercial worlds and into space today. So very broad topic are
Serve on the federal trade commission. They hearing is two hours and 40 minutes. The committee will come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses today. Today is a very important hearing date. We are going to be joined by our colleagues and former colleagues senator nelson to be nominated as nasa director and senator jensen senator hutchinson who will join us virtually. I cannot think of two more active Ranking Members on this committee. We welcome them. Certainly, we have our former commerce secretary joining us virtually. It is a big commerce they they day. To see our colleagues. There is a lot of enthusiasm by members who hoped to join in in support of these nomination. We will be joined by a variety of senators. Senator rubio is with us already. Welcome to the family. We are covering everything from the digital and natural to the commercial world space today. It is a broad topic area. We are going to be talking a lot about innovation. I am pleased to consider the nomination of a d
Exponentially in the next couple of days. I have to ask what if this breach occurred under a democratic president . President obama, for example. Would there be more than ten statements or 11 or 12 . This should be categorically, roundly condemned by every United States senator of either party. These hacks renew the urgency for Additional Resources for defensive cybersecurity across our government. This need is not a new one. In fact, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency known as cisa was stood up within the department of Homeland Security in 2018 precisely to shore up the United States governments defenses against such hacks, such intrusions. However, as we all know, just days after the 2020 president ial election, President Trump fired cisas director chris krebs for contradicting the president s own false claims regarding the election. The president has failed to take this act, this attack on our security, this attack on our government, hes failed to take it seriously. Th