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Ron Johnson: “This is the department that is tasked with this and I'm…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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HSGAC Business Meeting 7-29-15

Published | Video Starts at 13:56

And certainly I have been pretty impressed with the technical capabilities of the staff within DHS when it comes to cyber security. And let's face it, This is the department that is tasked with this and I'm happy to support giving them greater authority to basically prompt and require some of these agencies to protect the data within our federal IT system. So I'm support of these amendments. Anybody else like to discuss them? Senator Carper, some of you know that Senator Collins worked on these issues for a number of years and she along with others. (13:56–14:11)

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