Political Quotes

“I wish to say to my colleagues that there is 10 minutes of debate in between these votes, so those Members who have conversations, I wish they would take them off the floor. If they are not going to have conversations, stay and listen to the debate. Mr. President, from the floor, I have said to my colleagues that the information sharing bill is a very delicately balanced piece of legislation. What we have attempted to do is to create a voluntary program that companies around this country can choose to participate in or not. Some have already expressed their opposition to it, and I would say that is very easy--pass the bill, and they just won't participate. There are going to be amendments, though, that change the balance. I don't want to get into the details of every amendment. Let me just say to my colleagues that if we change the balance we have reached not just on both sides of the aisle but with the comfort level of businesses across this country to where they believe they can no longer participate in it, then we won't have a successful information sharing bill. I think every Member of this body and every American knows that cyber attacks are not going to go away. They are going to continue, they are going to become more numerous, and we are going to be on the floor debating something that is probably much more specific in the future.…”