August 03, 2012
A Democrat-sponsored cybersecurity measure that the Obama administration calls necessary to protect the nation’s infrastructure was blocked by Republicans opposed to what they considered to be undue regulation.
CBS-owned CNET reports the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 needed 60 votes to move to a vote by the full Senate, thanks to a Republican filibuster of the measure. It mustered only 52 votes in favor, which in the Senate’s upside down world allowed a minority of 46 opponents to defeat the measure. The vote mostly fell along party lines, according to Bloomberg. Senate Democrats had hoped to have a vote on the measure by the Senate before the August recess.
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