McCaul 'Hoping' for September Senate Markup of Digital Security Commission Act, Aide Says
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is “hoping” for a September Senate Homeland Security Committee markup of the Senate version of his Digital Security Commission Act (HR-4651/S-2604), which would allow House Homeland Security to “take it from there,”…
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said committee General Counsel Joan O'Hara during a Thursday Internet Governance Forum USA conference. HR-4651/S-2604 would create the 16-member National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges (NCSTC) to analyze the encryption landscape and provide recommendations to Congress on possible consensus legislation. House Homeland Security's Republican staff issued a report last month that pointed to HR-4651 as a compromise “third way” of addressing the encryption debate (see 1606290069). McCaul believes there's “good bipartisan support” for creating NCSTC and the commission would allow for a “robust, honest conversation” on encryption issues, O'Hara said. If the commission forms, its members may be able to “think outside of the box” on encryption policy, she said. Senate Homeland Security didn't comment.