Yet another executive order beyond the scope of his authority..............unconstitutional move that takes away the voice of the people totally.............can we all say dictator or king????

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The remnants of last year’s blistering fight became apparent Wednesday, as Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) revived a cybersecurity bill that the White House once threatened to veto.

As they did, Senate Democrats and Republicans resumed quarreling over the need for government to set any new security standards for power plants, water systems and other forms of critical infrastructure — the very battle that scuttled the chamber’s efforts in 2012.

Both camps of lawmakers, though, expressed some hope this week they can soon notch the sort of win on cybersecurity that’s eluded them for years.

“The president challenged the Congress to demonstrate that we can work in a bipartisan fashion to find a solution to cybersecurity that will actually engage … the public and private sectors,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told POLITICO. He said he has “real hope we will make progress on it this year.”

The president’s new executive order tacks closely to the bill that faltered twice in the Senate in 2012. It advocates for the nation’s critical infrastructure to adopt voluntary security standards while urging agencies to determine whether those best practices should be mandatory. It also facilitates information sharing between the government and businesses.

The order, however, is largely incomplete: Only Congress can set forward the sort of federal authorities that might make the plan work smoothly and fully.

For example, lawmakers hold the key — incentives for businesses — that might bring industry to the table in supporting voluntary standards. And only Capitol Hill can create a full-fledged information-sharing system, one that grants businesses liability protections while helping industries easily share data with the government.

The order also couldn’t touch on the mammoth issue of federal information security, and the administration alone couldn’t grant the sort of expanded hiring authorities and new research spending that lawmakers and agencies seek.

Those omissions set the stage for a new debate, one the president highlighted in his speech as he called on members of Congress to cease their bickering. Still, the fight could again prove arduous if lawmakers’ statements this week are any indication of what is to come.

On one hand, congressional supporters of robust cybersecurity reform saw significant benefit in the president’s announcement. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the new leader of the chamber’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told POLITICO the action is justified after the White House “waited for all of last year to see if we could get our act together … and we were unable to do that.”

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