Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and other members of the House Freedom Caucus have sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson urging House leadership not to rush the reauthorization process for the Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015.
The lawmakers expressed concerns about how the federal government obtains cybersecurity technology from private companies. “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.
They emphasized that these issues need careful review before any reauthorization takes place. “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.”
Clay Higgins has represented Louisiana’s 3rd district in Congress since 2017 after succeeding Charles Boustany. He previously served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and currently lives in Lafayette.
