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“Again, I say that the cloud is saving consumers and businesses from the loss of valuable data. The Jackson Lee amendment adds to the firewall of protecting Americans' privacy and, in the flow and the discourse of business, of protecting the privacy of our businesses that do not have data that is necessary for the government's information. That should be said over and over again. I thank both the ranking member and the chairman for their kind remarks, and I ask my colleagues to support the Jackson Lee amendment that provides, again, the firewall of privacy. With that, Mr. Chairman, I ask support of my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger for the work in crafting this legislation and the Rules Committee for making my amendment in order. Mr. Chairman, my amendment is straightforward. It improves the bill by providing that: Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to provide authority to a department or agency of the Federal Government to require a cybersecurity provider that has contracted with the Federal Government to provide information services to provide information about cybersecurity incidents that do not pose a threat to the Federal Government's information. Mr.…”