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Floor Speech

Date: May 12, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Technology and Communication Oil and Gas

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Mr. TIMMONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because as of this morning at 9 a.m., 78 percent of the gas stations in my district in Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, are out of gas. My constituents are calling my office hundreds at a time requesting relief.

What has happened with the Colonial Pipeline is a cybersecurity attack. It is an attack likely from eastern Europe. A group that calls themselves DarkSide is seriously impacting the lives of my constituents.

This Congress has waited far too long to address our weak cybersecurity in the overall U.S. economy. We must take steps as a country and as a Congress to increase our cybersecurity to protect our country from future attacks.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to craft legislation to make sure that what is going on right now in the Southeast does not happen again.

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