Committee Hearings – Week of 4-7-24

With the House and Senate returning from a two week break, there is a moderately light hearing schedule. Budget hearings continue the start of the FY 2025 spending cycle. There is a water system cybersecurity hearing this week in the Senate.

Budget Hearings

Budget Hearings	House	Senate
DHS	Approp Subcommittee	Approp Subcommittee
Cyber Command	Armed Ser Subcommittee	Armed Services
DHS – Member	Approp Subcommittee
Armed Services		Armed Services

Cybersecurity Hearing

On Wednesday the Water and Power Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on “Examine the Federal and Non-Federal Role of Assessing Cyber Threats to and Vulnerabilities of Critical Water Infrastructure in our Energy Sector”. The witness list includes:

• Terry Turpin, FERC,

• Virginia Wright, INL,

• Scott Aaronson, EEI

While an impressive array of cybersecurity experts, it seems to me that they may have less cogent input on cybersecurity for water systems as their expertise is focused on the national grid. Wrights leadership of the INL's cyberinformed engineering work may be the most important input.