thank you for being here, senator koontz. >> koontz has taken a sincere and strong interest in this issue and worked very hard with me and others to get the bill to the finish line before it fell apart and before the executive order came out. thank you very much. thank you senator, thank you for invitation to you and senator grams and so many others who have dedicated time and effort and research make sure that the congress are doing our part. we'll give ourself a low grade how we have done in term of being able to bridge the differences between our party and chamber in term of coming up with some functional structure for dealing with the cyberthreat to our nation. i'm grate to feel senator white house for the per sis tebtd leadership in the issue the cross of number of committees of jurisdiction. my own home state. it has implications in addition to the intelligence, defense, and many others. let me could, if i could. ask a few questions. i have a piece of legislation i want to talk about. but if you would help me understand in the run up to some of the legislative work last year a great

senator koontz. all of those in favor of the grassley amendment as amended signify by -- excuse me. choked on that water. hang on. >> aye. >> ay erk. >> opposed -- the aye appear to have it. the aye have it. senator, do you have an amendment? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i bring up the koontz i, this is a amendment that ensure notification to individuals whenever the e verify record accessed. .. the aye have it and the next is senator dwrases -- grassley. amendment 38. [inaudible] my amendment would allow parents who are legal guardian -- my amendment would allow parents or legal guardians to prevent the theft of their child's identity, meaning sold through social security, children are being targeted by a lot of thieves. their social security numbers are at risk. and parents should have the power to lock their number and protect them from year's worth of trouble in trying to fix the situation. .. the bill requires a secretary to issue regulations within one year of date. these regulations are -- to issue final regulations. so you have to add at least one year to the phasing. not eve

deported lets the fund the -- chordate the prison venture is co-sponsored rise centners grassley, koontz, a faith of coalition and in bet i but if the parents are sick and have a good hospital to be moved away away, and things like that. i ask you to approach yes and it also like to bet what we're doing here in this committee for immigration is set public and streaming online and keeping everything that we have here and on the internet and we're way beyond was united states senators do but what do we do for immigration? we are as a people and as a country. but what theat minnesota has done with this it goes to what we are as a people and as a country to all who claim respect for family values and would it means a cruz the core of what we are as a country. i would hope there betty would support it to. call -- now i would like a roll call. [roll call] >> the next. >> mr. chairman as my friend from minnesota wrote may be amenable. >> with that objection. mr. chairman i b add but let the clerk know they will be added. senator lee remember i called up the amendment have the second degree to p

senator klobuchar is senator koontz book mentioned interest in small business. as the attack broadened, particularly those they specialize process for your product or scale is susceptible of being stolen and replicated without license fees and invented on your own are becoming more and went to target, particularly in the supply chain. so they get to a point where if you're a small shop in rhode island, that is the best place in the world at manufacturing a very specific kind of medals to elegy that's what we want you to be doing. we don't want you to stop everything and try to bring in best of class cybersecurity in the same way a raytheon permit donald douglas or subcontractor and yet they're just as much at risk we all agree. let me thank all of you. i know you work hard in this area every day and think and dynamic ways about this problem. i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward. i will accept senator graham's indication or suggestion that come up with something on visas in the framework of the immigration bill now pending. as i said to the

. >> a facebook question directed to you from cynthia koontz from louisville, ky.policies can be put in place to help our country train and prepare a work force for the jobs of tomorrow? little 1 off in this conversation. our government spends the money. >> there is a joint agreement that government should spend money on things like this. one of the huge issues we face in our economy is the skills that. we have 400,000 people in a while looking for a job today, 100,000 jobs open. why is that? primarily because those people looking to not have skills to fill 100,000 jobs in ohio. people say unemployment is going down. not really. if you look at the labour participation rate, if you assume the same labor participation people in the work force looking for work as when the recession began we are 11.3% unemployment. a lot of it is demographic. that doesn't account for the lowest labor participation rate since 1979 since jimmy carter was president. my point is there's a huge skills gap. one thing the federal government could do, part of the final agreement is to take a w