Ben Cardin actually said...

I think that those are good suggestions. I agree that the technology at NIST needs to be better understood.

Cybersecurity crosses many committees' jurisdictions here, and crosses many agencies in the Federal Government.

All I am suggesting is, make it more visible, because, if you do not do it, no other country will.

as Senator Cardin said, many of the private sector do not want to identify that they have been attacked, for fear of losing the good will.