Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and members of the House Freedom Caucus delivered a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson recommending that Leadership avoid rushing into reauthorization of the Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015).
“The federal government’s capture of cybersecurity technology from thousands of private sector companies is a concern. Information sharing should not be a one-way street, and Conservatives have concerns about the federal government’s siphoning of proprietary IT tech into the intel community. Over the last decade, we have witnessed massive failures of existing cybersecurity infrastructure with devastating consequences for private industry and U.S. citizens,” wrote the conservative lawmakers.
“These failures must be considered and require a careful and deliberative reauthorization effort,” the lawmakers continued. “We cannot rush forward with a quickly assembled markup on a bill, which was only published for review yesterday. The planned markup was poorly conceived and sets a very liberal tone that will not be casually accepted by Constitutionalist Republicans.”
Read the full letter here.
