Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today in support of the cyber security information bill introduced by my colleagues, Senators Burr and Feinstein. I want to commend my colleagues and their staff for their leadership and for their tireless efforts on this extremely important piece of legislation. As ranking member and former chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, I have been following cyber security and this information sharing proposal in particular literally for years. In fact, when Senator Feinstein first introduced an information sharing bill in 2012--that was like two or three Congress's ago--it was referred to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, on which I served. That bill was ultimately folded into a comprehensive cyber security bill that I had the honor of cosponsoring with Senators Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, Jay Rockefeller, and Senator Feinstein. We were not able to pass that bill, but I think it has paved the way for other cyber legislation, including the bill that is before us today and a number of the amendments that are going to be offered to that bill in the managers' amendment, especially. Last Congress, I worked with our ranking member on homeland security, Dr. Tom Coburn, and our House counterparts to get not one, not two, not three, but four cyber security bills enacted into law, signed by the President.…”