so those are at least three important areas that the robust e.o. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, senator akaka. let me pick up on the -- i was -- i appreciate that report, secretary napolitano, and i'm glad that the administration is going forward with the sense of urgency about this. there will be a variety of reasons to adopt cybersecurity in a lame-duck session but i agree with senator akaka. based on what we've been through up until now i wouldn't count on it. i'll be quite pleasantly surprised if we're able to find common ground and we're still working on it. we still have bipartisan discussions going on. with that probability of the failure to adopt the cybersecurity act of 2012 or something like it, i think the sooner the executive branch is ready to try to fill whatever gaps it can, the safer the country will be. so i appreciate that and i certainly -- i take this to be what the pace of work and the administration is so i am not saying at odds with it but i want to see how the lame-duck session works out. if we get something passed then it will presumably overcome the ex