[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16380]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                FEDERAL-STATE CYBERSECURITY COOPERATION

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, today, here on Capitol Hill, I visited with 
various National Guard units from different States to learn more about 
the innovative ways they are keeping us safe in cyberspace. I 
appreciate their efforts and their service.
  The House has passed several measures to protect our cybersecurity 
this year, and the Senate is now working to do the same. There is a 
clear, bipartisan consensus that more needs to be done to protect us 
from data breaches, malicious hackers, and those who would inflict harm 
on the American people in using our cyber networks.
  Several high-profile data breaches include a hack of the Office of 
Personnel Management, which accessed highly sensitive information that 
puts our national security at risk as well as that of many people's 
private lives.
  We must act now to protect our cybersecurity before an even more 
catastrophic attack occurs. More integration and cooperation is needed 
among Federal, State, and local levels to be on the same page for the 
cybersecurity Americans expect of us in government and are promised. I 
feel we are falling woefully short should another attack occur. We must 
be prepared better than we are.

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