Floor. A recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to under clause 6 of rule 20. The house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 3559 as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3359, a bill to amend the Homeland Security act of 2002 to authorize the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the department of Homeland Security and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. Mccaul, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. Barragan, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. Mr. Mccaul i thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and their remarks include any extraneous materials on the bill under co
Permanent residents, many errors involved. You can watch this conversation on immigration and sanctuary cities any time on line, cspan. Org, go to our video library. We take to you a hearing underway, the House Armed Services committee on the fiscal 2018 budget request and emerging threats. Hearing now from admiral mike rogers, commander of u. S. Cyber command. I think back to the dialogue in the 1980 whz when i first joined first commissioned in the military in the aftermath of the failure of desert one and the effort to rescue those u. S. Hostages being held in the embassy in terrain. We had a lot of dialogue about is soft so specialized, so poorly understood by theth broad conventional part of the military, so needing of specific attention that we should create a separate sof service. We ultimately decided that the right answer was to create a joint war fighting construct. Thus in 198 was born special operations command. In addition we said that that operational entity needed to be
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hearing of the emerging the subcommittee will come to order. This is our first opportunity to explore this request and the major implications for key defense missions. I think it is fitting that the first area we will dive into is cyber h cyber. This is an increasingly important domain of warfare and an area where we have increased our emphasis on overseeing the departments progress in building and maintaining cyber forts tods protect, defend, maintain, and when necessary conduct offensive operations in cyber space. As we move towards developing the fiscal year 2018 ndaa, i have made cyber and sigher warfare one of my main priorities. In the coming workz weeks, we plan to introduce standalone cyber warfare information that strengthens congressional oversight of Cyber Operations including mandating prompt notifications to congress in the event of unauthorized disclosures. We look forward to continuing to work with
Country. But it would be wrong to suggest that this is also just like its been in yemen and somalia were you going with quick light footprint attacks and leave. Here it is going to have to be a very constant form up operations at the scene already announced over the past month about 150 separate attacks they have done in 30 days. You can do the math there. It is five today. On over 200 targets that is just doing the basel and a few other locations in iraq. Obviously at some point and i dont think it will be immediate, this will spread to syria. Host you had a piece last week i believe that outlines the challenges the president faces could you also do price tag about the airstrikes in iraq so far. Over 200 million a month. Guest that is just containing it to iraq. If this spreads to theory the price goes up significantly. Host talk about that war. How much money are we talking about . Guest we dont know because the president has not put a price tag on it. When you consider afghanistan t
To be one of the few organizations that did see a very generous budget, including the addition of 2,000 officers this fiscal year, and in the administrations request for 2015, theres also a request for another 2,000 plus officers. Which we know are critically important to securing the economy and encountering this threat. I understand the manpower. Im concerned about technology and other things necessary to support the increase in people along the border. Im looking at the International Side of it. Well, we use those officers to deploy them in places like preclearance overseas. Deploy them in the Immigration Advisory Program. Deploy them to the National Targeting Center. When we collect the information, we collect the intelligence reports and others too. For instance, the officers based on their experience and their knowledge in turns that into actionable operational entities and being able to question them and continue to address that. So its not a matter of resource. Are you satisfie