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This hearing will come to order. Of course you will. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kristen m. Nielsen to be it next secretary of it United States department of Homeland Security. I want to welcome ms. Nielsen, her family. Id certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly. General kellys wife. Shes here also showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to eliminate def...

State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollar...

Whos international mep ship is working to improve the security condition worldwide. We start by reviewing some successful bott net take downs in recent years. They may prove instructive as they are successes. In 2008, the conflict worm was discovered. I had competing commercials security companies. Members cooperated with each other to mitigate this global threat. Then in 2011, the u. S. Department of justice led operation ghost click, in which a criminal gang in estonia was arrested, charged with wire fraud and conspiracy. While shutting off the criminal infrastructure the victims depended on...

Second, this is how criminals work with other criminals. We would not get far by trying to solve these fast evolving global problems with topdown control or through government directives and rules. As you yourself pointed out, a botnet is literally a network of robots, whereby robot we mean a computer thats been captured and made to run software neither provided by the maker or authorized or installed by its owner. It has conflict and so forth. The only hard and fast requirement for any of this software is interoperability, meaning it merely has to work. The cost of the internets spectacular g...

I want to start by noting that the committee has been particularly supportive as the staff and the oversight investigation subcommittee for their work on this issue and their work with our agency we consider it to be a Real Partnership and we are very grateful for this committees support. We have received a number of referrals from this committee and we appreciate your confidence and ability to work with the employees that your office refers. So thats one thing. Its already happening. We are doing everything that we possibly can. Weve set up a priority system and we free allocated staff to han...