Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
An eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked closely together for four or five years it has been now. So with that, i think, we actually have a bit of the different presentation. We love powerpoint. We are going to use powerpoint. We actually have a few videos that we will include to set the stage on some
The u. S. Chamber is proud to be sponsoring this publication that will be released later this year. That was a quick preview of what is to come. With that said, lets give a round of applause for our first two panels. [applause] and we will take a quick, i say an eight minute to nine minute break, so we could make this quick. There is still purpose in the back and if you need to use the restrooms but they are on the outside, so thank you. [indiscernible voices] [indiscernible voices] ok. All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming back from break. We have had some great panels is morning and we are happy to be invited to participate this morning as well. I am a victim just as Program Specialist for the office of victims of crime at the department or justice Human Trafficking division and i am join today with heather from the texas advocacy project, and Heidi Alvarez with the university of Maryland Safe Center and actually happens to be one of my grantees, so we have worked c
as a downgraded tropical cyclone. the historically destructive storm made landfall for the second time yesterday. this time in south carolina. more than 180,000 residents lost power almost immediately. that number, reported to have grown to nearly half 1 million as the storm has carved its way through the carolinas. of course, nowhere has been more devastated than florida, where ian s wrath after touching down was deadly, as 77 people confirmed dead. homes literally washed away. entire communities, recovering from being nearly submerged. the president, planning to visit the state to thank its first responders. said yesterday that eons destruction in florida is almost unmatched for our nation. the situation in florida is far more devastating. we will just be beginning to see the scale of that destruction. it s likely to rank among the worst in the nation s, and the worst in the nation s history. you have all seen the scene on television. homes and property wiped out. it s go