Back in July, Rep Simpson (R,ID) introduced HR 4821, the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies [IER] Appropriations Act, 2024. The House Appropriations Committee published their Report on the bill. There is no specific cybersecurity funding mentioned in the bill. The bill does contain reduced funding for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB). The Report discusses several chemical safety initiatives.
Proposed Amendments
Back on September 22nd, the House Rules Committee solicited amendment proposals for HR 4821, There have been 258 amendments submitted to the Committee. None of those amendments deal with cybersecurity issues or chemical safety issues. Interestingly, 22 separate amendments were proposed reducing the salary of various agencies’ executives to $1.
Moving Forward
The House Rules Committee had been scheduled to hold a rule
hearing in this bill on Tuesday when the House was reduced to chaos by the
vacation (okay that is not the real word that applies, but it came to mind, and
it sounds good) of the Speakership. Sometime after the House votes in a new Speaker
(and some Chairs get shuffled, maybe), this hearing will get heard. Unfortunately,
those changes will not address the underlying problems that I outlined in June in
my ‘Coming
FY 2024 Spending Bill Logjams’ post. In fact, I suspect that they have just
gotten worse as there will be less incentive for the new Republican leadership
to compromise with the Democrats on conference versions of the bill.
For more details about the provisions of the bill and the
discussions in the Report, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-4821-introduced
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