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Ratcliffe, Khanna Plan Bill To Codify Federal Cyber Security Program

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

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Ratcliffe, Khanna Plan Bill To Codify Federal Cyber Security Program

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), member of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation panel

Congressmen John Ratcliffe (R-Calif.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Monday said they will introduce a bill this week that codifies a key Department of Homeland Security program that helps protect federal civilian information networks. The Advancing Cybersecurity Diagnostics and Mitigation Act is identical to a Senate bill introduced by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) in July. The Senate bill, S. 2318, has been referred to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Ratcliffe and Khanna said the…

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