You. Thank you. Pedro joining us for the conversation, tim starks and john donnelly. To you gentlemen, thanks for joining us. Tim starks, you start the questioning. Tim as you know, the big story of the past week or so has been this global out of the wannacry ransomware. Im wondering, twopart question, is there anything that congress can do on that front to confronting ransom ware specifically . And because this was apparently caused in part by a leaked nsa hacking tool, is there Anything Congress can do to refine the process for when the government discloses vulnerabilities to companies . Rep. Langevin first, i dont think that theres Anything Congress can do right off the bat that i can think of that would prevent this type of situation from happening. Really, its up to individuals and companies to patch their systems, to make sure that their Software Updates are updated. That they download their security patches. And that they turn on their automatic updates. I would say to anyone li
You. Thank you. Pedro joining us for the conversation, tim starks and john donnelly. To you gentlemen, thanks for joining us. Tim starks, you start the questioning. Tim as you know, the big story of the past week or so has been this global out of the wannacry ransomware. Im wondering, twopart question, is there anything that congress can do on that front to confronting ransom ware specifically . And because this was apparently caused in part by a leaked nsa hacking tool, is there Anything Congress can do to refine the process for when the government discloses vulnerabilities to companies . Rep. Langevin first, i dont think that theres Anything Congress can do right off the bat that i can think of that would prevent this type of situation from happening. Really, its up to individuals and companies to patch their systems, to make sure that their Software Updates are updated. That they download their security patches. And that they turn on their automatic updates. I would say to anyone li
What is it . Rep. Hurd it is called the modernizing Government Technology act, or mgt. What it does is quite simple. If a chief Information Officer in the title government saves money by doing Something Like transitioning to the cloud, they saveble to use what they for up to three years in a working capital fund. Why is that important . The federal government why is that of . Why is that important . What the federal government spends on goods and services is outdated legacy systems. That is outrageous. We need to be using our dollars wiser. Cioing able to have the have the authority to introduce new technology, a widget on the widget on the a proverbial two guys in a garage, defendll help the cio our Digital Infrastructure, and this will make our agencies more efficient. Peter is it possible to standardize how the government urges his Information Technology . Purchases Information Technology . Rep. Hurd we should be thinking about outcomes. We should be giving the authority to the cios
Good morning and welcome, everyone. This is joint hearing of the subcommittee on disability assistance and Memorial Affairs an oversight and investigation will come to order. I first want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, chambering man. Ranging member esty who should be along this morning and Ranking Member Kuster Holding the hearing on important issue were facing helping gulf war veterans get benefits they earned. It should go without saying we have a duty to take care of the men and women who have been wounded while serving in our military. Unfortunately too many injured gulf war veterans are not being taken care of. Va estimates 44 of gull war veterans develop gulf war illness, yet 26 of those veterans are receiving benefits. Something doesnt add up. On march 15th, 2016 during a similar joint hearing on gwi claims va, va testified that it was taking steps to improve service for gulf war veterans. Yet one year later, gao found va is still only approving 17 of claims of gulf w
Host welcome back. Im thrilled to see you here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies margo burns. , margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors of the incredible records of the salem witchhunt. She has probably forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite article on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] margo burns just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false confessions than he gave a few minutes ago. Read my article and you will find out. I am here today primarily to talk about the actual documents. And how do we know what we know. One of the things he was doing