Richard Burr: “I want to thank my good friend and vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Feinstein. She has been in the…”

“I want to thank my good friend and vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Feinstein. She has been in the trenches working on cyber security legislation longer than I have. Her passion is displayed in the product that has come out. There has been no person more outspoken on privacy than Dianne Feinstein. There is no person who has been more outspoken on the need for us to get this right than Senator Feinstein. Daily, she and I look at some of the most sensitive intelligence information that exists in this country. We are charged as a committee--15 individuals out of a body of 100--to provide the oversight to an intelligence community to make sure they live within the letters of the law or the boundaries set by Executive order. Every day we try to fulfill that job. We are sometimes tasked with producing legislation, and that is why we are here today with the cyber security bill. It has been referred to that we are here because OPM got hacked. No. We are here because the American people's data will be in jeopardy if government does not help to find a way to help minimize the loss. So where is the threat? The threat is to business, it is to government, and it is to individuals. There is no part of America that is left out of this. The legislation we are proposing affects everybody in this country--big and small business, State and Federal governments, and individuals, no matter where they live or how much they are worth.…”