The Senate should consider creating a select committee...
The Senate should consider creating a select committee to focus on cybersecurity, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Angus King, I-Maine, said Thursday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Congress has been considering several bills that would address cybersecurity, including…
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a House-passed version of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR-624), but industry observers have noted few prospects for marquee legislation to pass Congress during the remainder of the 113th Congress (CD Jan 6 p2). A select committee would be useful because “one of the biggest problems we face is that this issue crosses many jurisdictional lines of different committees,” McCain said during the hearing. King said he agreed with McCain, noting that it would be a “procedural” solution to continued disagreements on the issue between the Senate committees handling cybersecurity, including Homeland Security, Intelligence and Commerce. If the U.S. experiences a cyber “Pearl Harbor” in the near future “and we haven’t done anything, we're going to look pretty dumb around here,” he said. Keith Alexander, National Security Agency director and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, told the committee he believed having a committee “that pulls all that together would make a lot of sense.” Alexander said during the hearing that Congress needs to “get on with cyber legislation,” adding that “a lack of legislation will impact our ability to defend the country in this area.”