Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Thursday attached...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Thursday attached language identical to the Cybersecurity Act of 2013 (S-1353) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (S-1197). Rockefeller “believes the provisions in his amendment will strengthen the nation’s national…
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security and, therefore, deserve consideration through the NDAA,” a Senate Commerce aide said. The cyber bill, sponsored by Rockefeller and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., would authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work with industry on an ongoing basis to develop voluntary cybersecurity guidelines and best practices, in line with NIST’s current development of the Cybersecurity Framework. The bill, which would also strengthen the government’s cybersecurity research, education and public awareness efforts, cleared Senate Commerce in late July in a unanimous vote (CD July 31 p1). Since then, “it’s been sitting on the sidelines for too long and there’s too much at stake to not look for every opportunity to pass it in the Senate,” Rockefeller said in a statement. Senate Democratic leaders have warned against attaching amendments on unrelated political issues to the authorization bill, but the Senate Commerce aide told us Rockefeller had the backing of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. The NDAA now contains more than 300 amendments, including at least five that challenge aspects of controversial National Security Agency surveillance programs. Democratic leaders would like to pass the defense bill before Thanksgiving (CD Nov 21 p10).