Analysis: Does Congress understand cybersecurity, technology use?
When members of Congress weigh in on cybersecurity, do they know what they\'re talking about? How about the use of technology in government? Some of the top nam...
Aneesh Chopra, the President’s Chief Technology Officer, adds in answer to the same question, that all the key legislation now proposed by the White House, including health care reform, energy, higher education, all have provisions for transparency and efficiency using new technologies, as he puts it “as a core component of the legislation.”
David McClure, associate administrator with the Office of Citizen Services at General Services Administration, calls the area of congressional oversight a “thorny area”, citing the fact that the Congress is composed of 535 individuals who are running for re-election almost from the day they are elected to office.
The secret is results, both short term and long term, we’ve got to perform, we’ve got to deliver, but we’ve also got to stay on course.
McClure concluded by saying even when agency heads are leaving office at the end of a Presidential term, it’s their job to make sure that any project they initiate with Congress’s help must be “moving toward a good target.”
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