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Conversation. All right. We will go ahead and get started with the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back first of all from the break. I want to welcome to panelists up here and thank you for willing to participate in the discussion. Obviously, it is the topic du jour for elections administrators and people in the Scientific Community dealing with election cybersecurity, and securing the election process. By way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election where we saw a nation state actors targeting state level election systems, and registration systems as well as vendors and a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of the electionses as Critical Infrastructure by the department of homeland security. On this panel, i hope that we can delve into the issues and talk about the operating environment that the election official s a officials are in today, and share the expertise that you have and your experiences and
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Hill where the House Foreign Affairs committee is about to hear from secretary of state john kerry, jack lew, and earnest muniz. Last week the three secretaries were grilled before a senate committee. Libby casey is live on capitol hill. Libby, good morning, last weeks hearing did get testy at least at times. Are we expecting the same today . Stephanie we certainly are. The House Republicans intend to go over their own set of questions, and well hear tough questions from democrats too. It wasnt just last weeks hearings where senators used words like you have been bamboozled and fleeced. The rhetoric and conversation continued throughout the week. We heard ted cruz speaking on the floor last week calling for an amendment, saying that iran must recognize israel before congress can sign off on this deal. That sort of thing wont happen and he got a lot of pushback even from some republicans over the weekend who accused him of using this issue to play president ial politics so we have seen