Political Quotes

“Thank you. Are there other speakers on our side? Let me ask the Chair to notify me when there is 10 minutes left in case Senator Collins comes or someone else. So I would like to have up to 10 minutes and be notified. Mr. President, I rise to speak against revoting this cloture motion, and the main reason is that we are not going to be allowed to have amendments. That is unacceptable because although we have worked diligently with the sponsors of the cyber security bill on the floor, a number of the ranking members of the relevant committees that have jurisdiction over cyber security have an alternative bill, the SECURE IT Act, that we would like to be able to put forward as an alternative or have an amendment process that would allow our approach to have a chance to prevail anyway. Now, we are aware that the President is signaling his intention to issue an Executive Order, but an Executive Order is not sufficient to really give the encouragement and the protection to the companies to allow them to share information with other companies that might have the same types of threats in the same industry area or with the Federal Government. I am sorry we are not going to be able to have amendments that would allow us to perfect this bill. Let me say that the proponents of S. 3414 acknowledge that it is important to have a collaborative effort between the businesses that run almost 90 percent of our Nation's critical infrastructure and the Federal Government.…”