
The House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday in approved a number of bipartisan bills, including one measure to strengthen the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) oversight of pipeline security. The Pipeline Security Act (H.R. 3243) would codify TSA’s Pipeline Security Section and ensure that it works with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to secure the nation’s pipelines from cyber and terrorist attacks. Approval of the bill by the panel follows a ransomware attack earlier this month against East Coast…