As you know, we changed it so that--we came back and said, 'Well, why don't we say that, for critical infrastructure, the best practices would be, not mandated, but we'd ask the industries--the owners, the operators of the critical infrastructure--to tell us what--or to tell the Department of Homeland Security what the standards ought to be.'
Carper discusses changes made to legislation regarding critical infrastructure standards.
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