Of mr. Pie the federal vacations. As fcc commissioner and now as chairman has not been a vigorous watchdog for free speech. He has not put to the peoples right to information first and in fact he has put corporate interest first. Outright and he has opposed policies are right that insured under serveda communities have access to essential technology and i strongly oppose his renomination to the commission. Lets begin with his responsibility to guard First Amendment rights. President trump has relentlessly attacked nbc, cbs, abc, cnn, the New York Times and the washington post. He calls these established and esteemed news outlets they can use and he even called them the enemy of the people. Earlier this year in february during the Senate Commerce hearing this was an oversight hearing and i asked chairman pai point blank whether he agreed with the president that these main stream news organizations were the enemy of the people and he refused to answer, refused to disagree patently outrag
The committee on Homeland Securitys subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all im sure i speak to for all of us here on the day as expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events liking the one yesterday demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and eevlt and hopefully it will give us all a renewed senses of purpose as we approach the tasks of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of homeland securities Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Were here today at the start of national Cyber Security Awareness Month to discuss what i believe is one of the defining policy challengings. The Cyber Security posture of the United States. Weve seen Cyber Attacks hit nearly every sector. And it is our shared duty to insure that were doing our very best to defend against
Killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . Do you think the nation with demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 100,000 people a ,ear killed and injured congress would be in a frenzy. We found two minutes for a moment of silence and we moved on. Gun violence is a Public Health hazard. Bit as important as every other disease or outbreak. Ours is the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from death and injury from guns on a massive scale. Of frustration in congress and another School Shooting in my district, i sat down with my constituents to go through, what are the things that we can do that would make a difference . We understood that you cannot completely solved evil people. Theres not a statute thats foolproof. Are built withs efforts to try to make things better. Lets stop dealing with gun violence as a political issue and think about it as the Public Health epidemic that it is. Its already claiming over 12,000 liv
The committee on Homeland Securitys subcommittee on Cyber Security and Infrastructure Protection will come to order. First of all im sure i speak to for all of us here on the day as expressing our deepest condolences to all of the family members and all of the victims of yesterdays tragedy in las vegas. Events liking the one yesterday demand the utmost humanity in response to such blind hate and eevlt and hopefully it will give us all a renewed senses of purpose as we approach the tasks of the day. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony regarding the department of homeland securities Cyber Security mission. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Were here today at the start of national Cyber Security Awareness Month to discuss what i believe is one of the defining policy challengings. The Cyber Security posture of the United States. Weve seen Cyber Attacks hit nearly every sector. And it is our shared duty to insure that were doing our very best to defend against
Thank you all for coming out. My name is joann and i am the for common cause maryland. Im not sure how many of you are familiar with common cause but we are a nonpartisan Grassroots Organization dedicated to upholding the core values of american democracy. Chapters,er 30 state over one million members threat the country. Common clauses one of three groups helping todays event. I also want to give a special thank you to all the groups who took different actions like filing amicus reefs and supporting the movements in a number of ways. A special thank you to all the volunteers who came out early and are hoping out today. With common cause maryland, to one of the two most gerrymandered in the country. The worst in the nation for how we draw our congressional and district lines. We cannot rely on elected officials to fix the system. It is time for the Supreme Court to create ground rules that based safeguard our right to vote. Today we are joined by a number of speakers who are going to hi