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Great. Perfect. All right. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you so much. It is my leisure today to moderate. If i can have your attention drawn to the bags in your chair, we have a journal in their which is amazing. We are going to have a nice discussion today. I would like to introduce the first lady. First lady edwards, if you could come forward. Class good afternoon. Thank you all so much for inviting us to be here. To be a part of this panel. I am especially delighted to be with first lady georgia. Thank you so much. She presented on a resume some of that was started during covid. So glad you are sharing and doing this work in georgia. Amazing work. We have helped to educate and raise awareness and Human Trafficking in each of our states. I am grateful for all he is doing to help stop the terrible crime. I can tell you that when i became first lady, this was not on my radar. It was one of those issues i had never heard of. Like many of the people, i was the teacher and educator. I wa
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t
Minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and ransom the federal government
Its about an hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [background noises] good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. What is the subcommittee i chaired the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation. The other is a subcommittee to economic growth, Energy Policy and regulatory affairs. Which is chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. Since this is a joint hearing will have Opening Statements of the chair and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements i will tend to keep mine brief. Cybersecurity spent a major focus of our since it became a subcommittee chair and confirmed we as a nation are not prepared for the increasing the for cicada and Cyber Attacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country to face Cyber Attacks him and forced to pay huge sums of money and rans