On April 27, 2012, Siobhan Gorman reported for the Wall Street Journal on how CISPA, a controversial cybersecurity bill, passed with a 248-168 vote in the House of Representatives. The bill had pretty solid bipartisan support, with 42 Democrats joining 206 Republicans. Now the big question is how the Senate will respond. CISPA looks more like Secure IT (Senator McCain's proposal) than it does the CSA (Sens. Lieberman, Feinstein, Collins, and Rockefeller's proposal); the Senate had previously split along ideological lines over the two bills. Hopefully CISPA's passage puts pressure on the Senate to get something done. The Obama administration has threatened to veto CISPA, but a few commentators doubted that the threat was genuine.
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Pete Kasperowicz reported for The Hill on how the House passed two other cybersecurity bills in the wake of CISPA. Specifically, the House passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement act and the Advancing America's Networking and Information Technology Research and Development act. Both bills were non-controversial, and mostly had to do with cybersecurity research.
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