With both the House and Senate in session this week it looks
to be a busy week for Committee work. We are still seeing spending bills being
marked-up and we have three cybersecurity related authorization bills. There
will also be a Senate mark-up of the TWIC Reader Delay bill in that body.
Spending Bills
Monday – House Rules Committee – HR
6157 DOD;
Tuesday – House Rules Committee – HR
6157 DOD;
Tuesday – House
Committee – LHHS;
Tuesday – Senate
Sub-Committee – DOD;
Tuesday – Senate
Sub-Committee – LHHS;
Thursday – Senate
Committee – DOD;
Thursday – Senate
Committee – LHHS
The Senate will finish work on HR 5895, the FY 2019 EWR
spending bill Monday evening. The House will take up HR 6157, the FY 2019 DOD
spending bill, either late Tuesday or on Wednesday.
Cybersecurity Authorization Bills
The three authorization bills with a cybersecurity nexus are
for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the
National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) and the intelligence
community.
On Tuesday the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of
the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a
hearing on their draft
of an authorization bill for NTIA. The witness list includes:
• Michael D. Gallagher,
Entertainment Software Association;
• John Kneuer, JKC Consulting; and
• Joanne S. Hovis, CTC Technology and Energy
The draft bill includes two ‘Sense of Congress’ sections on cybersecurity
threats and supply chain vulnerabilities, and on preservation of domain name
system and WHOIS service.
On Wednesday the House Science, Space, and Technology
Committee will hold a mark-up
hearing for three as of yet unintroduced bills. One of those is the draft
of the NIST authorization bill. The draft includes a section on general
cybersecurity and a separate section on IoT with cybersecurity language
included.
On Thursday the House Intelligence Committee will hold the
inevitably closed-hearing
on their mark-up of the as of yet unpublished FY 2019 Intelligence
Authorization Act. The draft is not publicly available and, of course, the good
stuff will be in the classified annex to the bill.
TWIC Reader Rule
On Wednesday the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Committee will hold a mark-up hearing on eight bills, including S 3094. The
text of that bill has not yet been published by the GAO, but it sounds like it
should be a companion bill to HR
5729, the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability
Act of 2018. After having reviewed the Coast
Guard NPRM on their proposed selective delay of the implementation of the
TWIC Reader Rule, it seems unlikely that the two legislative delay attempts and
the CG delay are very closely related to the same issues.
On the Floor
In addition to the two spending bills on the floor this
week, we will also see the House take up two bills of potential interest to
readers of this blog. Later today the House will consider HR
5081, the Surface Transportation Security and Technology Accountability Act
of 2018, and HR
5733, the DHS Industrial Control Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of
2018. Both bills will be taken up under the suspension of the rules provisions.
This means limited debate and no floor amendments. It also means that the
leadership expects serious bipartisan support for both bills since a
super-majority is required for passage.
The House is also scheduled to
take up a motion to go to conference on HR 5515, the FY 2019 DOD authorization
bill, that passed
in the Senate last week.
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