Political Quotes

“This amendment would authorize the Department of Homeland Security's program to provide web- based security services to U.S. Federal civilian agencies. The program is known as EINSTEIN. When fully implemented, it is expected to provide all participating Federal agencies with the ability to know the cyber threats they face and protect their systems from insider and outsider threats. To fully implement EINSTEIN to protect Federal civilian networks, there are complex interagency privacy and coordination issues that still need to be settled. This authorization should help the Department of Homeland Security's efforts at closing out those issues as it confers specific statutory authority to the Department to pursue EINSTEIN. I support the amendment, and I urge my colleagues to vote ``aye.'' Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”