Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program Act of 2021

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Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, I thank Delegate Norton for her leadership, and I thank Ranking Member Comer for his leadership on the bill and, of course, Representative Mace, who has been a colleague and helped craft this.

Everyone recognizes that our country faces cyberattacks. In the private sector, we don't silo cybersecurity officials. You don't say, ``You just work in one department.'' They rotate through a company. We shouldn't have separate silos in the Federal Government.

This bill is just common sense. It says that we need to have a rotational system in the Federal Government so that you can have expertise from all the different agencies, and we can have a comprehensive response. It helps us get talent. And it is bipartisan.

We should give credit to the previous administration for having, as was pointed out, the executive order. I worked with Matt Lira at the previous White House. There is nothing that is partisan about making sure that America isn't attacked with cybercrimes and cyberattacks. That is a bipartisan initiative, and this does build on the work they did. It makes it stronger, and we put, ultimately, resources toward it.

But I am proud of the work. I am proud of working with Representative Mace on it. Frankly, I think we ought to be doing more things in this body in a bipartisan way that strengthen American security.

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