The commit three come to order. F without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. As a reminder to all member, we have a hardo stop at 1 30 p. M. Members who are iounable to ask their questions at Todays Hearing will be given priority at the next hearing with the secretary. Pursuant to house rules, the committee will continue to provide accommodations for members who request to participate in hearings be virtually, but i am very happy to have the vast majority of the members and our witness participating in personn here today. As a reminder, those who are not fully vaccinated must continue to wear Ara Mask in the Hearing Roomer and practice social distancing, but i would also like to encourage our members to continue wearing o masks if the Feel Morera comfortable doing s so members, we have a little bit of the problem with the timing apparatus here this morning. We canan see the timing here wh your five minutes are up. The witness can see her
Out outfront tonight, Tossing Tens Of Thousands of doses of the lifesaving covid vaccines. Health officials in iowa say thats what they may have to do in the comieing days because people dont want to get vaccinated. There isnt enough demand. They will tHrow it away. Nearly 40,000 Vaccine Dose expire next week headed for the garbage because 50 of Iowas Population is fully vaccinated and vaccine rates have plunging down 90 . It a really disturbing headline and alarming trend in Vaccination Rates that were seeing across the country. It is one of the reasons among host of the unvaccinated. Up 65 from last week and more concerning, hospitalizations. Theyve been climbing for tHree weeks running now up 60 over the past 14 days. Governors are running out of patience. Here is the governor of louisiana today, a state with 36 of the population vaccinated and a whopping 670 increase in cases from just a month ago. We have the highest Growth Rate of new cases per capita of any state in the united s
Right them. And so here we are on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the deadliest attack on Black Americans on u. S. Soil, when as many as 300 in the thriving black Wall Street District were slaughtered by a white mob. Thats the story. Any mitigation of that is not the truth. And at the same time that we condemn this as obscene, as a reminder of what is wrong, we see in realtime today one of the greatest assaults on democracy under way once again targeting minorities. The party of trump intensifying its efforts to strip people of color of their rights to vote. The boldest attempt since the era of jim crow. President Biden Drew A through line in tulsa today. 100 years ago at this hour on this first day of june, Smoke Darkened the tulsa sky. This was not a riot. This was a massacre. I come here to help fill the silence. Because in silence, wounds deepen. What happened in greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism. With a through line that exists today still. Repo
Interagency coordination. Hi, good morning. Happy friday, and thank you for joining us today at the american Enterprise Institute with representative John Katko where were going to talk about cybersecurity, and im very excited about this discussion. To start things off, John Katko is the 25th Representative of New York and he serves as ranking member on the house, Homeland And Security committee. Before joining the house, he was an assistant Attorney General where he spent years working on rico cases, after which he spent time in the Enforcement Division which i understand is being very helpful right now since were dealing with so much in ransomware and whats going on in crypto and cybersecurity. Representative, thank you for joining us to talk about cyber. Thanks for having me. Im looking forward to the discussion. Theres a lot going on. We talked in january, but since then weve had a tremendous amount of activity in this area. I know you spent two decades in organized crime as a pros
Today at the american Enterprise Institute with representative John Katko we are going to talk about cybersecurity. To start this off, John Katko is a republican representative from the 24th District of New York and serves as the ranking member on the house, and security committee. Before joining congress, he had a major role at the department of justice as the assistant united States Attorney General where he spent 20 years working on rico cases and spends times at the Security And Exchange commission in the enforcement division, which i imagine is helpful right now as we are dealing with ransomware and what is going on with crypto and cybersecurity. Congressman, welcome, thank you for spending your morning with us. Thank you for having me. There has been a lot going on. You and i talked in january, since then we have had a tremendous amount of activity in this area. I know you spent two decades as a prosecutor as well as working for the United States all around the world. You have pr