Subcommittee Not Ready for Cybersecurity Bill: Rep. Eshoo on C-Span's 'Communicators'
John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 2/17/2012 3:17:54 PM
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Communications subcommitee of the Energy & Commerce Committee, said she does not think the group is ready to introduce cybersecurity legislation.
"I don't think we're ready for a bill yet," she said in an interview for C-SPAN's Communicators series.
With the Senate having introduced a bill, Eshoo said that chamber was "a little ahead of us" on this. She co-sponsored cybersecurity that came out of the Intelligence committee, but pointed out that was specific to the intelligence communittee.
Eshoo pointed out her subcommittee had held its first cybersecurity hearing last week, and suggested it was still finding out what it didn't know. She called the hearing one of the most instructive she had ever been a part of, a point she made at the unusually bipartisan hearing as well.
She said while the subcommittee wasn't prepared yet, it needed to get ready, and added that she would work toward getting a cybersecurity bill passed this Congress, while recognizing that it is tough to get anything done in an election year.
Eshoo said she was glad the Stop Online Piracy Act was stopped in its tracks, but added that the "hijacking of American genius" was a problem that still needed to be resolved. "I just think the SOPA bill was far, far too broad," she said.
Asked to react to the FCC's rescission of LightSquared's waiver for a national wholesale wireless broadband network, Eshoo said she thought LightSquared's was an exciting proposal, and said she trusted that the FCC carried out unbiased testing and that the decision was based on science and engineering.
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