Political Quotes

“Madam President, last week I came to the floor to express my support for the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which we are dealing with today. The bipartisan vote of 83 to 14 that happened later that day was an important step in the right direction to deal with this issue. The debate has been encouraging. We need to deal with this threat to our economy. It is a threat to our security, it is a threat to our privacy, and we need to deal with it now. As I and others have said before, if we wait until there is an event that gets people's attention in such a dramatic way that everybody suddenly realizes what is at stake, there is no telling what kind of overreaction Congress will make. This has been a good debate at the time we should have it. Now, of course, we need to move on. There have been a lot of amendments offered. Many amendments have been accepted by the managers of the bill. With almost all certainty, today we will finish the remaining amendments pending on the bill and hopefully finish the bill itself. A lot of these amendments have been very well-intentioned--in fact, I suspect they all have been well- intentioned--but in many cases they fundamentally undermine the core purpose of the bill, which is to have voluntary real-time sharing of cyber threats, to allow that sharing to be between private entities and the Federal Government, and even for private entities to be able to share with each other.…”