[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5287]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               CYBER WEEK

  (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Mr. Speaker, it is Cyber Week in the House again. 
Tomorrow and Thursday, the House will be considering two very important 
pieces of information-sharing legislation, and I commend the leadership 
of the Intelligence and the Homeland Security Committees for their 
bills.
  As co-chair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, I am glad that 
the House is, once again, taking the lead to protect our networks--both 
public and private--from attack as well as looking to protect privacy 
and civil liberties. I am also hopeful that, unlike in the last two 
Congresses, my colleagues in the other Chamber, in the Senate, will 
take up their proposals so that we can get a bill on the President's 
desk.
  It is particularly important that we codify an information-sharing 
framework so that we can turn our attention to other challenges in the 
cyber domain. From data breach to critical infrastructure protection, 
our ever more connected world ensures that there will be a further 
demand for congressional action.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the leadership of the committees for their 
attention to this issue.

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