Yesterday the House Intelligence Committee held a mark-up
hearing on HR
624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). After 10
amendments were considered the bill was adopted on a bipartisan 17-2 vote. Six
of the amendments were adopted by voice votes; the remaining amendments were
defeated in identical 4-16 votes.
As expected all of the amendments were relatively minor
tweaks to the language of the bill attempting to address privacy concerns with
the information sharing provisions of the bill. Nothing was added (or attempted
to be added) to the bill that would address control system security issues;
this remains a pretty purely information technology security measure.
The bill will move to the floor of the House probably next week.
There will almost certainly be an open rule for its consideration with a number
of privacy amendments offered. The bill will, as it did last session, pass with
a substantial bipartisan majority. And
just as likely, it will not be taken up by the Senate.
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