Both the House and Senate are returning to Washington this
week, back from a grueling week off for the 4th of July holiday. The
committee hearing schedule is kind of light for both houses, but that may
change as people get the offices up and running. Only two hearings this week
that may be of specific interest to readers of this blog; oil exports and
cybersecurity law.
Oil Export
The Energy and Power
Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will be holding
a hearing on Thursday on “HR 702, Legislation to Prohibit Restrictions on
the Export of Crude Oil”. This is an information gathering hearing not a
markup. The witness list has not yet been published.
I would not normally cover this type of bill but, as I noted
in my
post about the introduction of this bill, the broad language in §3 of the bill
would seem to strip DOT and the Coast Gaurd of authority to enforce hazmat
shipping laws when dealing with oil being exported. I don’t think that was the
intent; just one of the unintended consequences of a general mistrust of this
Administration. It will be interesting to see if this comes up in the
discussions.
Cybersecurity Law
On Wednesday, the Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding
a hearing on “Cyber Crime: Modernizing our Legal Framework for the
Information Age Crime and Terrorism”. This hearing was rescheduled from last
month and the witness list has not yet been published.
No details are available on what the actual topics might be,
but given the propensity of Congress to overreact, this might be an interesting
hearing in light of the recent IT breaches in the Federal government. I do not really
expect control system security to get much attention here.
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