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House Passes Slew Of Homeland, Cyber Security Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018

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House Passes Slew Of Homeland, Cyber Security Bills

The House On Tuesday evening and Wednesday approved a number of bills dealing with homeland and cyber security, including legislation to enhance cyber deterrence, strengthen the Department of Homeland Security’s role in countering potential threat drones, and codify the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) cyber security program within DHS.All but one bill, the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP) Authorization Act (H.R. 6439), were approved by voice vote. The BITMAP bill, which was approved 272 to 119, allows Immigration…

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