[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3879]
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SA 1845. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) Congress must address the ongoing, escalating threat
posed by cyber attacks from foreign countries and independent
or sponsored nefarious actors;
(2) cyber attacks present one of the most critical national
security threats facing the United States;
(3) vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity of the United
States have been exploited to access sensitive and personal
information, including data relating to security clearance
investigations; and
(4) in order to protect the most important information
systems of the United States, including those in our weapon
systems, from cyber threats, Congress must invest in
developing the most sophisticated and agile cyber capability
in the world.
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