mr. lipinski: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. lipinski: i rise in support of h.r. 2096, the cybersecurity enhancement act. i would like to thank my colleague, mr. mccaul, for his hard work on this critical piece of national cybersecurity policy. as co-founder of the house cybersecurity caucus, mr. mccaul has become increasingly important to our nation. our work together on this legislation, which began last congress, demonstrates that this bill is good bipartisan public policy that should receive overwhelming support in this house. in 2009 the president called for a comprehensive 60-day review of u.s. cyberspace policy. that call in the subsequent expert recommendations contained in the report led to a series of hearings on cybersecurity r&d, and it resulted in the cybersecurity enhancement act of 2010 which i sponsor and worked on with mr. mccaul in the science and technology committee las

lipinski, mcintyre, owens, peterson and walz. those are the democrats that voted today with republicans to keep the student loan interest rates the same. so, mr. speaker, it's my great hope that while the president's running around the country condemning republicans for not caring about the plight of students who have to pay student loans, and about the fact that he says republicans are going to double the student interest rates, i hope that somebody who's not out campaigning, like the president, down the street that way on pennsylvania avenue will get something into the president's teleprompter that advises him, hey, you may want to back off of that. the republicans with only 13 democrats voting with them actually voted to extend the same interest rates. now, i feel like the democrats would agree with the fact that we believe that in order to keep from having expenses continue to go out of sight as they did during the two years that congress was completely controlled by democrats and they had the white house, they did whatever they want, they passed a rule, pay as you go. and actually i broke ranks and voted with them. others told me they do