Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will bring up cybersecurity...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will bring up cybersecurity legislation for Senate consideration after lawmakers return from recess, said Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. Lieberman told us Tuesday: “I'm glad there is movement, and once the…
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House passes their bill, which I assume they will, it will encourage us to act, which I take from Senator Reid we will do in May.” Lieberman said he was “obviously concerned” about the bills the House is planning to consider this week. “The leadership has asked the Republican committees to leave out the section on making sure the most critical cyber infrastructure that is privately owned is taking steps to protect itself and the rest of us from attack.” Separately, Senate Armed Forces Committee Ranking Member John McCain, R-Ariz., told us he’s keeping a close eye on the House cybersecurity debate this week. “I think they have come up with some very good ideas [which are] far more along the lines of our proposal than the other one,” he said. McCain said he was partial to the House Intelligence Committee’s Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which has some “good points to it. … I think it could be a real good area where we might be able to come to an agreement.”