An Obama administration official Friday dismissed calls to delay consideration of...
An Obama administration official Friday dismissed calls to delay consideration of S-2105, the Cybersecurity Act. “It is our sincere hope that Senators will look at the significant amount of public debate that has been occurring on these issues and continue…
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to work in a bipartisan manner to craft legislation to address the full range of cyber threats facing our nation,” the official told us. “Resorting to half measures is simply not commensurate with the very real and urgent risks to our nation. It’s time for the Senate to get down to business on a vital national security matter.” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chastised the authors of S-2105 for their “hurried process” during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Thursday. The Cybersecurity Act “has already been placed on the calendar by the Majority Leader, without a single markup or any executive business meeting by any committee of relevant jurisdiction,” McCain said. “My friends, that’s wrong.” The administration official told us Senate committees have worked on and debated the proposal for at least four years. “Since the Administration delivered its cybersecurity legislative proposal last May, executive branch leaders have testified at 15 congressional hearings and provided dozens of briefings to members of congress and their staffs. We provided representatives to participate in dozens of bipartisan working group meetings to develop consensus provisions that incorporate elements from the Administration’s legislative proposals as well as previous Senate proposals. … How many more business meetings are necessary to begin debate?”