Committee Hearings – Week of 6-27-21

With just the House in session this week (the Senate takes a 2-week 4^th of July recess), there is still a long list of hearings being held. Appropriations bills are being marked up, there is also a DOD cybersecurity hearing and a markup of several cybersecurity bills.

Appropriations Markup Hearings

6-28-21 House – Subcommittee - Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (IER),

6-30-21 House – Subcommittee – DOD,

6-30-21 House – Subcommittee – DHS,

6-30-21 House – Committee - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (ARF)

Cybersecurity Hearing

On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems of the House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on “Department of Defense Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Information Assurance for Fiscal Year 2022”. The sole witness will be John Sherman, CIO, DOD.

Cybersecurity Markup

On Wednesday the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will be holding a hearing on “A safe wireless future: securing our networks and supply chains.” There is no witness list and there is a list of cybersecurity and communications security related bills, so I am kind of assuming that this is a markup hearing, but it is not listed as such on the Committee web site. The following bills are listed:

HR 4029, the Timely Evaluation of Acquistions, Mergers or Transactions with External, Lawful Entities to Clear Owners and Management (TEAM Telecom) Act,

HR 4045, the Future Uses of Technology Upholding Reliable and Enhanced Networks Act" or the "FUTURE Networks Act,

HR 4046, the NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act,

HR 4055, the American Cybersecurity Literacy Act,

HR 4067, the Communications Security Advisory Act of 2021,

HR 2685, the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act,

HR 3919, the Secure Equipment Act of 2021,

HR 4028, the Information and Communication Technology Strategy Act,

HR 4032, the Open RAN Outreach Act

The GPO has only published one of these bills (HR 2685) and it is not one that I would cover. The links above are to committee prints of the bills. I will be doing a quick review of these bills before Wednesday.

On the Floor

Today the House is scheduled to take up HR 2225, the National Science Foundation for the Future Act, under the suspension of the rules process. The way the Republicans have been playing delaying games with such bills, a vote will be demanded and there will be a mass vote on all 11 suspension bills on Tuesday.

As I mentioned yesterday, sometime later in the week the House will take up HR 3684, the INVEST in America Act. I will have more on what amendments will actually be considered after the two Rules Committee hearings today and tomorrow.