congressional colleagues, senator daniel inway, senator pat robert, senator jack reed, representative mac thornberry, representative mike simpson, and representative sanford bishop. our chairman is rocco siciliano. i understand that the purpose of this hearing is to discuss the eisenhower memorial. while some may be here to express a design point of view, which may be legitimately different from the commission's viewpoint, i'm here to answer your questions about the memorialization process to the best of my ability, and to demonstrate what the proposed memorial is and what it is not. in my extended statement for the record, you'll see how we worked with congress and numerous government agencies such as the national parks service, gsa, ncp, the commission of fine arts, the district of columbia, and many others. since the passage of the legislation establishing the commission, the memorial designer has been bound by law to memorialize both the 34th president of the united states and the supreme commander of the allied forces in world war ii. i'd like to direct your attention to four images that will a

this task force, led by representative mac thornberry, set the direction for all the bills we're considering this week. the science committee started our cybersecurity work early in congress, so i was very pleased to see the task force embrace both mr. mccaul's bill, h.r. 2096, and h.r. 3834 as necessary steps to improve the u.s. cybersecurity. i'd like to also thank my texas colleague, ranking member johnson, my neighbor, for joining me in co-sponsoring h.r. 3834, which updates the program. the program is an important component of our nation's cybersecurity efforts and it is critical to our overall networking and information technology research and development in general. it's a product of the high performance computing act of 1991 and coordinates the government's r&d investment in unclassified networking computing software, cybersecurity and related information technologies. the bill before us today updates the underlying high-performance computing statute that's been in place for 20 years and codifies the work national coordination office already undertakes. specifically h.r. 3834 improve