mr. westerman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. westerman: thank you for your leadership. today's a good day for america because we will finally send this bill to the president's esk. mr. speaker, i have constituents who used to have health insurance but no longer do because their premiums are too high. now they have no insurance and the only thing to show for it is a fine from the i.r.s. medicaid expansion is a blueprint for single-payer government-run health care. as an engineer i can assure you if you start with a bad blueprint you get bad results. instead of expanding medicaid for able bodied working age adults, we should fix the broken medicaid who need it, the disabled, elderly and children. there were 32.8 nondisabled americans between the ages of 18 and 64 who were not working at all. more than they need medicaid expansion, they need pro-growth economic policies that will foster good jobs so they can simply work and provide for themselves and their families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has exp

mr. westerman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. westerman: thank you for your leadership. today's a good day for america because we will finally send this bill to the president's esk. mr. speaker, i have constituents who used to have health insurance but no longer do because their premiums are too high. now they have no insurance and the only thing to show for it is a fine from the i.r.s. medicaid expansion is a blueprint for single-payer government-run health care. as an engineer i can assure you if you start with a bad blueprint you get bad results. instead of expanding medicaid for able bodied working age adults, we should fix the broken medicaid who need it, the disabled, elderly and children. there were 32.8 nondisabled americans between the ages of 18 and 64 who were not working at all. more than they need medicaid expansion, they need pro-growth economic policies that will foster good jobs so they can simply work and provide for themselves and their families. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has exp

mr. westerman. i will also join you in plugging that. i know it's on our web site and our facebook pain, and i think the tate is january 15th when things are due, right? >> unless you extend it. >> now, recognize mr. abraham. >> thank you, madam chairman for having this great hearing. i want to thank the witnesses for giving direct answers to direct questions. it's refreshing and somewhat of a novel idea in a committee hearing. so, cue doughs to you -- kudos to you guys for answering straight up. we appreciate that. some of you have espoused the value of sharing cyber security information, whether it be a cyberthreat trend trend or cyber crime with other companies or government officials. this last cyber security we passed last month, did that help or hurt in this area? >> sir, think that was a good bill. we endorsed the bill and support the bill completely. the most important thing, however is that is not the cyber security bill. that's a very useful tool to have in the toolbox. it can help but it is nowhere near sufficient. >> we need

mr. westerman: he served others, not prestigious power. he said it was his father who encouraged him to go into public service, calling it a noble profession. i can think of no nobler act than serving others and i appreciate dale's example and his heart. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. farenthold: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate boy scout troop 3 in corpus christi, texas, that's celebrating 100 years of scouting. scouting is a wonderful organization for our youth. it teaches them new things. it helps them build self-esteem, learn teamwork, self-sufficiency and the importance of helping others. from the beginning of troop 3 in 1916, their scouts have always been of service to our community and the country. during world war i, members of the troop sold war bon

mr. westerman. >> thank you, madame chair. i would like to commend the panel today for your very informative testimony and also for the zeal you have in working in cyber security and i believe it's potentially the war of the future that we're fighting here in cyber security. and i'm from arkansas. and just for personal reasons, mr. clinton, do you have any arkansas ties? jut out of curiosity. [ inaudible ]. >> okay. also, i've been listening to the testimony and the answers to the questions. i have a 20-year-old college student and i had a fascinating conversation over christmas and you guys were talking about how millennials are always connected. he was telling me that that's a huge consideration where you take a job now what the connectivity speed is. and that wasn't something we considered when i was getting out of college, but it played a big key in where they would go to work and where they would live. so, i know we're in this connected world now. to follow up on mr. swalwell's question, he was talking about being on offe

mr. westerman. i will also join you in plugging that. i know it's on our website and our facebook page. and i think the date is january 15th when things are due, right? >> unless you extend it. >> i'll recognize mr. abraham. >> thank you, madam chairman, for having this great hearing. i want to thank the witnesses for giving direct answers to direct questions. it's refreshing and somewhat of a novel idea in a committee hearing. so, kudos to you guys for answering straight up, i appreciate that. some of you have espoused cyberinformation whether a cyberthreat thread or cybercrime with ornl othcertainly other go officials. this last cyber security plan that we passed last month, did that help or hurt from this area? >> sir, i think it was a good bill. we endorsed the bill. we support the bill completely. the most important thing to understand, however, that is not a cyber security tool. it's a useful tool in the toolbox it ask help, but nowhere near sufficient. >> so we need to do more? >> absolutely need to do more. >> giving the top three, what would be your bullet points for the admini

mr. now recognize westerman.thank you.man: i would like to commend the panel for their testimony today, and the zeal you have been working in cyber security. i think it is the war of the future we are fighting here in cyber security. . am from arkansas mr. clinton, do you have any arkansas ties? just out of curiosity. [laughter] mr. clinton: [inaudible] rep. westerman: ok. i have a 20-year-old college student and had a fascinating conversation over christmas, talking about how millennials are always connected, and he was telling me that that is a huge consideration where you take a job now, what the connectivity speed is. it wasn't something we considered when i was getting out of college, but it played a big key and where they would go to work and where they would eventually live, so i know we are in this connected world now. on the question, he was talking about being on from the technology ore is at all defensive, are there ways to combat hackers before they make their attack? one is around things like honeypo