Legislation to encourage the sharing of cyberthreat information won’t come up for a vote until lawmakers act on a measure that would end the NSA’s bulk collection program. The USA Freedom Act would curtail the NSA from collecting metadata on communications of Americans. The White House has yet to take a stand on the Senate cyberthreat sharing bill. Other factors continue to stall a vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the bill that passed the Senate Intelligence Committee in July on a secret vote. The bill’s sponsor, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., isn’t moving forward with another cybersecurity bill he’s sponsoring.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/whats-behind-delay-info-sharing-vote-a-7475