[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HACKING

  (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, 2016 is shaping up to be a banner year for 
cybersecurity, and not in a good way. From attacks on the Ukrainian 
power grid to attempts to undermine American electoral confidence 
through the dissemination of hacked documents from the Democratic 
National Committee, cyber tools are fully emerging as instruments of 
state power.
  If these incidents seem to be disproportionately affecting us and our 
allies, it is because our cybersecurity posture has not yet matched the 
threat we face. That being said, we recognize, of course, it is easier 
to attack than to defend.
  Thankfully, there are steps we can take to protect our networks. We 
can invest in our cyber defenses, we can clarify cybersecurity roles 
and responsibilities within government, we can build our workforce to 
take on these new challenges, and we can also build our resilience.
  The goal of our adversaries is not necessarily just to leak emails, 
but it is to shake faith in our electoral system. We cannot allow that 
to happen.

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