Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said during an interview at the Capitol Tuesday the House’s passage of four cybersecurity bills last week won’t have any impact on the Senate’s work to craft comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. The Cyber Intelligence…
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Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) (HR-624) “is a very watered-down, weak, sort of useless bill. So it can’t guide us at all,” he told us. Rockefeller said “it would be much better to send [House lawmakers] our bills.” Rockefeller said the upper chamber’s work on a cybersecurity bill has been “going very well. I know I've been saying that for years but it actually is now,” he told us. Former Maine Republican Sen. “Olympia Snowe and I wrote a cybersecurity bill four years ago and it is still basically the underlying bill,” he said. “It is such a disgrace that the Congress has not been able to act on it.” Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., said during a separate interview at the Capitol he has held “several constructive engagements with the principals” involved in crafting the forthcoming Senate cybersecurity legislation. Carper would not give his opinion of CISPA but said he has asked his staff to “get up to speed” on what the House has done in legislating the most recent version of the bill. “The administration has released a message to say that if it comes in this form they will not sign it. So that is not helpful if we want to get things done. We are looking at what are the concerns that the administration has and what does the bill do,” Carper said. “I'm in favor of going through regular order here, for the committees to do their work.” Carper would not say when specifically his committee would hold its next cybersecurity hearing. “The conversations are going on and I think that is very encouraging,” he said.