Members of the Senate said they are open to reviving a cybersecurity
bill that failed to advance on Thursday, but the political and policy
spats that plagued the legislation for months won’t disappear any time
soon.
As the Senate failed to break a filibuster of the bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., changed his vote in a procedural move that will allow him to bring the bill back to the floor at a later time. He has said that if both sides can agree on a “finite” number of relevant amendments, the bill could be brought back to the floor when Congress returns in September.
Members of both parties agreed it was an issue that calls for congressional action. “I think everyone knows not passing a bill is certainly not an option,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “This bill will be back because it must be back. So the vote today is not the end of the discussion but rather the beginning of the discussion.”
But moving from calling for action to actually acting has proved difficult for Congress.
None of the issues that brought the Senate to an impasse have been resolved. Republicans blamed Democrats for using national security as an excuse to not allow amendments. Democrats accused Republicans of hijacking the process by insisting on amendments aimed at repealing the health care law and banning certain abortions in the District of Columbia.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/tech/cybersecurity-on-life-support-in-congress-20120802
As the Senate failed to break a filibuster of the bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., changed his vote in a procedural move that will allow him to bring the bill back to the floor at a later time. He has said that if both sides can agree on a “finite” number of relevant amendments, the bill could be brought back to the floor when Congress returns in September.
Members of both parties agreed it was an issue that calls for congressional action. “I think everyone knows not passing a bill is certainly not an option,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “This bill will be back because it must be back. So the vote today is not the end of the discussion but rather the beginning of the discussion.”
But moving from calling for action to actually acting has proved difficult for Congress.
None of the issues that brought the Senate to an impasse have been resolved. Republicans blamed Democrats for using national security as an excuse to not allow amendments. Democrats accused Republicans of hijacking the process by insisting on amendments aimed at repealing the health care law and banning certain abortions in the District of Columbia.
Read more: http://nationaljournal.com/tech/cybersecurity-on-life-support-in-congress-20120802
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