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Langevin Asks Ryan To Create Select Committee On Cybersecurity

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, December 16th, 2016

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Langevin Asks Ryan To Create Select Committee On Cybersecurity

Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.)

With congressional oversight disjointed and the intelligence community asserting Russian interference in the presidential election, Rep. James Langevin (D-R.I.) on Friday called on House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) to establish a committee to oversee cyber security issues, beginning with Russia’s meddling in the campaign.“Unfortunately, Congressional oversight of the topic is fractured,” Langevin says in a Dec. 16 letter to Ryan. “At least eighty committees and subcommittees claim some jurisdiction over the issue across the House and Senate. The splintered nature…

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