1/6 As a member of the United States Congress, I formerly chaired the Transportation, Security, and Infrastructure Committee and at that time discussed the energy grid of the United States and how vulnerable it was, and raised the issue of what America was doing to
2/6 protect the grid, and other vulnerable infrastructure. After seeing what has happened to Colonial Pipeline fuel tanks, and the ability of this vicious cybersecurity attack to potentially shut down America's energy sources and other vulnerable infrastructure we truly have a
3/6 major crisis. I applaud the Biden administration for immediately seeking to investigate the source of this crisis and will support them in any and all sanctions and accountability that they will devise. But it is imperative that Congress moves quickly on all forms of
4/6 cybersecurity protection. I intend to introduce new legislation, building on my zero day legislation previously passed, to ensure greater transparency in the private sector, enhanced reporting obligations, and penalties relating to failures by the private sector to
5/6 strengthen their cyber system. There should be no delay in passing new legislation to provide a structure that blocks this kind of violent cyber attack. The lives of Americans and people around the world are vulnerable to these attacks, and this is almost a declaration of war
6/6 against these destructive cyber attacks. We have to fix it now!

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