{"id":3806,"date":"2015-06-30T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gator4211.hostgator.com\/~cinnww\/insurance-advocate.com\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2018-12-12T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:55:15","slug":"cybersecurity-measure-defeated-in-senate-amid-procedural-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/2015\/06\/30\/cybersecurity-measure-defeated-in-senate-amid-procedural-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Measure Defeated in Senate Amid Procedural Spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Senate Democrats defeated a bill designed to strengthen cybersecurity measures, objecting to Republican efforts to attach the proposal to a larger defense-policy bill, <i>The New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/12\/us\/politics\/senate-rejects-measure-to-strengthen-cybersecurity.html?_r=0\"><span class=\"s2\">reports<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><small> <\/small><span class=\"s1\">The <i>Times<\/i> article, \u201cSenate Rejects Measure to Strengthen Cybersecurity,\u201d written by Jennifer Steinhauer, notes that the cyber measure is similar to one that passed the House in April. But the article adds that Democrats objected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell\u2019s decision to attach the measure to a broader bill that Democrats oppose, which would allow military spending to exceed caps by tapping into $38 billion in war funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The failure to pass the cybersecurity measure, notes the article, comes amid news of compromised data for at least 4 million current and former government workers, in an attack apparently targeting Social Security numbers and other personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the full <i>New York Times<\/i> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/12\/us\/politics\/senate-rejects-measure-to-strengthen-cybersecurity.html?_r=0\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats defeated a bill designed to strengthen cybersecurity measures, objecting to Republican efforts to attach the proposal to a larger defense-policy bill, The New York Times reports. The Times article, \u201cSenate Rejects Measure to Strengthen Cybersecurity,\u201d written by Jennifer Steinhauer, notes that the cyber measure is similar to one that passed the House in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currentnews","category-risk","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}