Jay Rockefeller: “The Cybersecurity Act of 2013 (S. 1353) represents a sensible, bipartisan, non-regulatory approach to an issue of utmost…”

That is stunning. It has not been reauthorized, CHIP. It is still out there, floating.

I thank Senator Johnson for his interest and support for this legislation and for his shared interest in strengthening cyber security. I also thank my colleague from South Dakota for drawing attention to the potential impact of this…

We are talking about dealing with everything from continuing resolutions, all of the appropriations, what are we going to do about ISIS, and all the rest of it, in a lame duck session forum.

Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.