Legislators pair cybersecurity bill with defense act
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act will be paired with the National Defense Authorization Act as an amendment.
As an amendment, the cybersecurity bill would not be subject to open floor debate.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act passed the Senate Intelligence Committee in March with a vote of 14 to one. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was the one dissenting vote and he and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have expressed concerns over the bill's privacy implications.
"Building America’s public and private cyber defenses won’t be easy. But the bipartisan cybersecurity measure that passed out of the Intelligence Committee with the support of every single Republican and every single Democrat but one, 14 to 1, will increase the ability of the public and private sector to share information and make us safer," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) "That’s why we’re going to take it up as part of the defense authorization bill now before us."
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