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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...

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...

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 What the federal government spends on goods and services is outdated legacy systems.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 introdu...

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 vet...

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....