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House Homeland Security Committee Approves Slew Of Bipartisan Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

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House Homeland Security Committee Approves Slew Of Bipartisan Bills

The House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday passed a number of bipartisan bills that now go to the full House for consideration, including a measure introduced last week aimed as strengthening the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) role in protecting control systems that connect industrial systems to the internet. The seven bills were approved unanimously. The DHS Industrial Control Systems Enhancement Act (H.R. 1833) ensures CISA has the lead role in protecting critical infrastructure and requires the agency to…

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