Roy Blunt: “I thank my friend from Rhode Island, and I think we can move forward. I think there is good faith. As I said, we…”

“I thank my friend from Rhode Island, and I think we can move forward. I think there is good faith. As I said, we started--the four of us--beginning to get people together. That group was quickly joined by Senators Collins and Lieberman, so then six of us began to get people together. There were any number of meetings this week with about two dozen Senators, about equally divided between both parties, trying to find a way forward. I didn't think we found that in the cloture motion today. The motion said: Here is how we are going to proceed to finish the bill, and so we didn't move forward today. But I hope we can continue to work with Senator Reid and others to create the sense that Senator Whitehouse just expressed, that there is great bipartisan effort being made to find a solution that not only would pass a Senate bill but would wind up with a bill on the President's desk sometime this year. You don't have to look very far to find people who will say that the greatest threat we face at this moment is the threat of some kind of cyber attack. At the highest levels of our military structure, of our intelligence structure, they quickly come to that conclusion. And leaving here for the work period in August that Congress has had since the beginning of Congresses without having this done on the Senate side is disappointing to me.…”