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New House task force to combine committee recs

A major goal of this new task force is to break up the comprehensive cyber bill into four separate components each of which could be addressed by an individual ...

Federal News Network Staff

October 18, 2011 6:20 pm

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There probably won’t be a comprehensive national cybersecurity protection bill this year.

But Speaker of the House John Boehner has charged a special task force to come up with a set of cybersecurity recommendations that encompass the interests of the nine different House committees that have jurisdiction in IT protection, CRM News reports.

A major goal of this new task force is to break up the comprehensive cyber bill into four separate components each of which could be addressed by an individual bill.

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