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Carper Introduces Bipartisan Cyber Security Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014

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Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Tuesday introduced two bills designed to strengthen cyber and information security within the federal government, one that would codify the existing cyber security and communications operations center at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the other to update existing information security direction. Both bills, which are co-sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the ranking member on the committee, will be marked up during a committee hearing on…

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