Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., told reporters Thursday...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., told reporters Thursday that more Republicans are beginning to support the Senate cybersecurity bill, S-2105. Republicans have generally opposed the Rockefeller-backed bill because they say it imposes costly cybersecurity mandates on the private…
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sector. But Rockefeller said: “I think the bill is coming together. I can think of five Republicans at least who I think we will get on that, which I think will be more than adequate and maybe more. If certain people decide to sign on we will get substantially more.” Rockefeller credited the work of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., to forge a cybersecurity compromise between Democrats and Republicans. Whitehouse came up with an “incredible set of suggestions which take away the whole fear of mandates,” Rockefeller said. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that he plans to bring S-2105 to the floor in July despite heavy opposition from supporters of an alternative cybersecurity bill, the SECURE IT Act (S-2151).