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  • Peters, Hoeven & Rosen Reintroduce Bill to Strengthen Federal Cybersecurity Workforce

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, John Hoeven (R-ND) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) reintroduced legislation that would help develop and retain highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals in the federal workforce. Agencies across the federal government face growing cyber threats, but struggle to hire and retain qualified cybersecurity employees. The legislation was unanimously passed by the Senate last Congress...

  • Peters, Portman Request Information on Federal Government’s Response to SolarWinds Orion and Microsoft Exchange Cyber-Attacks

    WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are requesting information from top federal cybersecurity experts on the recent compromises of SolarWinds Orion and Microsoft Exchange, how American cyber defenses were unprepared for this attack and why there was a significant delay in detecting these breaches. “As our hearing highlighted, there is no easy solution to adva...

Minority News

  • Portman Op-Ed in RealClearPolitics: Stopping the Crisis at the Border

    Today, Senator Portman, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote an op-ed in RealClearPolitics highlighting the crisis at our southern border and calling for the Biden administration to implement critical policy changes to stop the flow of unlawful border crossings.  Yesterday, Portman released a statement expressing his concern with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) operational statistics for March 2021 regarding the crisis at the so...

  • Portman Statement on March 2021 CBP Operational Data Showing 1000 Percent Increase in Migrant Families, Nearly 500 Percent Increase in Unaccompanied Children

    CINCINNATI, OH - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics for March 2021 regarding the crisis at our southern border and the massive influx of unlawful migrants and unaccompanied children making the dangerous journey to our border:  “I am very concerned that CBP reported more than 172,000 total encount...