This News Conference is about 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning i. M. Proud to be joined by my colleagues today and we are expecting no one else. [laughter] how do you like that . And the people behind me are among the leading defenders of reforms put in place after the financial crisis many are architects of Consumer Protections we have today. But now these reforms are under attack as indicated republicans are looking for votes to repeal the of arbitration rule from the cftc so pass this is the equivalent of to get a get a jail free card to wells fargo and equifax. Principal they did terrible wrong and they want to prevent consumers from having rights to sue them . That is outrageous. Worse, it is a green light to wall street to be free to continue to not have consequences and put simply urging our colleagues to say no to the equifax or wells fargo or anyone else who did horrible financial misdeeds. There are two ways that repealing the cfpb rule would give legal immu
Well, good morning. We meet in organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin i would like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security Sub Committee. This hearing builds upon the good work they and their Sub Committee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a battle space and across it they are waging a new kind of war against us, the war involving what extending beyond our military to include our businesses and our people. The department of defense has a Critical Role to play in this new kind of war but it cant succeed alone. To be clear we are not succeeding. We have lacked pollties in the cyber domain and we still dochlt it is because we were trying to
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
Csp csp cspspan. Or cspan. Org. Next, a look at hacking attempts by russia which may have targeted as many as 21 u. S. States. We heard yesterday from the person in charge of Cyber Security for the Homeland Security department janet manfra and other intelligence officials. From capitol hill this is a little over three hours. Hearing is in order. Today the committee convenes the sixth open hearing of 2017 to further examine russias interference in the election. This is an opportunity for the committee and the American People to drill down on this vitally important topic. In 2016 a hostile foreign power reached down into the state and local levels to touch voter data. It employed sophisticated cyber tools and capabilities and helped moscow to potentially build detailed knowledge of how our elections work. There was another example of russian efforts to interfere into a democracy with the goal of undermining our system. In 2016 we were woefully unprepared to defend and respond and im hope