Political Quotes

“Let me start off by saying to Senator Feinstein, 6 years ago, you, along with Senators Susan Collins, Joe Lieberman, Jay Rockefeller, and others started leading the effort to put in place comprehensive cyber security legislation and offered the first comprehensive bill dealing with information sharing. We had a vote in late 2012. It came up short, and we started all over again in the last Congress. You have shown great leadership right from the start. I thank you and I thank Senator Burr, the chair of the committee. I thank you for cooperating with us and with others to make sure that we have not just a good bill but a very good bill that addresses effectively the greatest challenges we face in our country. I have heard Senator Feinstein say this time and again, and I will say it again today: If companies don't want to share information with the Federal Government, they don't have to. It is elective. In some cases they can form their own groups called ISOCs that will share information with one another. They don't have to share information on attacks with the Federal Government. They can share it with other peers if they wish to, but if they do share it with the Federal Government, with a couple of narrow exceptions, we ask that it be shared with the Department of Homeland Security because the Department of Homeland Security is set up in large part to provide a privacy scrub.…”