A frustrated Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Wednesday railed against a Senate floor process that will likely prevent a vote on his amendment to a cybersecurity bill.
“I don’t know how I’m going to vote on this bill now,” Whitehouse said. “If you have a bipartisan amendment that was in the queue, that’s had a hearing and has Department of Justice support, and you can’t even get a vote on it, then something has gone wrong in this process.”The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act is intended to boost threat sharing between the federal government and the private sector. Action on the bill has been repeatedly stymied by privacy concerns.
Whitehouse criticized Senate leadership and the bill’s two co-sponsors, saying they met behind closed doors to determine the fate of various amendments. For the full article click here
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