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Burr Expects Senate To Vote On Cyber Security Bill Early Next Week

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

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Burr Expects Senate To Vote On Cyber Security Bill Early Next Week

The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday he expects cyber security legislation that promotes the voluntary sharing of cyber threat indicators between the private sector and the federal government and within the private sector to come to a vote either Monday evening or Tuesday.The Senate on Thursday is expected to vote to invoke cloture on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 754) to allow debate to begin and amendments be considered without the threat of a…

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Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

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‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]