Roy Blunt: “I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his kind comments. I wish to comment on a couple of things that have been…”

“I thank the Senator from Rhode Island for his kind comments. I wish to comment on a couple of things that have been said, and one by my friend from Connecticut that there are competing concerns here and they don't need to be mutually exclusive at all. When we talk about cybersecurity, we are not talking about the government somehow securing everything that happens in the cyber world; we are talking about, what are the things we can identify and agree on as critical infrastructure? There is a lot of security about what happens on the military cyberspace, dot-mil, and a lot of comfort about what happens in the government part, the dot-gov. What we are concerned about is what is outside those two networks that doesn't have the kind of protection those networks have, not about controlling everything--in fact, about defining specifically in the most limited way possible what is critical to the ongoing daily operation of the country. Senator Mikulski talked about that. She also said that if something happens, there is no telling what kind of legislation will pass. And I couldn't agree more with that comment in every way I can think of.…”