Senate Kills Cybersecurity Bill

[Frodo]

Cybersecurity bill fails in the Senate

By Ed O'Keefe
Posted at 12:21 PM ET, 08/02/2012

A bill establishing security standards to prevent large-scale cyber attacks on the nation’s critical infrastructure — including water supplies and the electrical grid — failed in the U.S. Senate Thursday, despite strong endorsements from top military and national security officials.

Senators voted 52 to 46 in favor of the bill, coming up short of the two-thirds majority necessary to advance the bill to final passage. Failure to pass the measure further stalls years of bipartisan efforts to establish stricter security standards and, experts say, could leave the nation vulnerable to widespread hacking or a serious cyber attack.

“This is one of those days when I fear for our country and I’m not proud of the United States Senate,” Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), one of the bill’s chief sponsors, said ahead of the vote. “We’ve got a crisis, and it’s one that we all acknowledge. It’s not just that there’s a theoretical or speculative threat of cyber attack against our country — it’s real.”

[Napoleon]

Don't know much about this but if Lieberman is a supporter, I think I am happy to see it fail.

[Free Palestine]

Good

[Associate Justice PiT]

Don't know much about this but if Lieberman is a supporter, I think I am happy to see it fail.

     Yeah, that was my exact reaction to reading the original post.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I encourage you all the read the article.... the web is a battlefield

[Yelnoc]

Sounds like an argument for nationalization of industries.

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[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

coming up short of the two-thirds majority necessary to advance the bill to final passage

Since when did we go back to needing 67 to end a filibuster instead of only 60?  Or was this some other arcane procedural hurdle of the Senate?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

coming up short of the two-thirds majority necessary to advance the bill to final passage

Since when did we go back to needing 67 to end a filibuster instead of only 60?  Or was this some other arcane procedural hurdle of the Senate?

2/3 is the majority required to pass a bill under suspension of the rules. What rules were being suspended here is not clear.

[Lief 🗽]

Like others have stated in this thread, I don't know the specifics of this bill at all, but anything written by Joe Lieberman having to do with national security or the internet (or both!) is obviously terrible and should be defeated.

[Zioneer]

Like others have stated in this thread, I don't know the specifics of this bill at all, but anything written by Joe Lieberman having to do with national security or the internet (or both!) is obviously terrible and should be defeated.

This, except I do know a little bit about the bill, and like all the others (SOPA/PIPA/etc), it's literally an attempt to let politicians and the whims of the present day regulate the internet.