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McConnell Sets Votes On CISA And Related Amendments For Tuesday

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

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McConnell Sets Votes On CISA And Related Amendments For Tuesday

After the Senate voted on Thursday to permit debate to move forward on cyber security legislation and then rejected a privacy amendment to the bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) set next Tuesday for votes an additional amendments and then final passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).The bill has strong bipartisan support with the cloture vote passing 83-14.The chief sponsors of CISA (S. 754), Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairman and vice-chairman respectively of…

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