McConnell Withdraws Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Amendment From NDAA Reauthorization
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., withdrew an amendment to the FY 2016 reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act (S-1376) Thursday that would have added language from the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S-754) in the bill. McConnell withdrew the…
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S-754 amendment after only 56 senators voted in favor of limiting debate on it. Three Republicans -- Dean Heller of Nevada, Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky -- voted against the amendment while six Democrats and Democratic-aligned Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, voted for it. McConnell cited the recent Office of Personnel Management data breach in his plea for the Senate to approve the S-754 amendment, saying “there are now 4 million extra reasons for Congress to act quickly.” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., echoed other Senate Democrats in objecting to the amendment, saying on the Senate floor that “there is no good reason for doing it this way” instead of considering S-754 after considering the NDAA reauthorization. An industry lobbyist said it was unclear how S-754 supporters would proceed, saying McConnell and other supporters of including S-754 language in the NDAA reauthorization appeared not to have planned for other options for moving S-754.