elizabeth wasserman is the tech editor at politico. ms. wasserman, one of the issues that we've covered on "communicators" over the past year and that keeps coming up is cybersecurity. what's the status of it, and do you see further action this fall? >> guest: yes. when the senate last, when the senate left town this summer, they had just failed to pass a democratic-backed bill on cybersecurity that was calling for, um, more requirements on critical infrastructure industries such as, you know, power plants, pipelines and water systems. um, the parties, um, didn't want to leave it as a full bust. they gave a lot of lip service to the fact that they could come back with a compromise. however, in the intervening time we had the political conventions, and each party fueled the topic with a little more rhetoric and finger pointing. and so, um, it's really going to be interesting to see whether they revisit cybersecurity when they come back in town. >> host: now, there has been some talk that president obama might look at cybersecurity through a

elizabeth wasserman is the technology editor at politico. one of the issues we have covered on this over the last year is cyber security. what is the status of it and do you see further action this fall? >> when the senate left town this summer, they had just failed to pass a democratic- backed bill on cyber security that was calling for more requirements on critical infrastructure industries, such as power plants, pipelines, water lines. the parties did not want to leave it as a full thing. they came back -- they gave a lot of observers that they could come back with a compromise. however, each party has fueled the topic with a little more rhetoric. and finger-pointing. it will be interesting to see whether they take care of cyber security when they come back into town. >> there has been talk that president obama might look at cyber security through an executive order. >> yesand during his -- in the party platform at the democratic convention that was hinted at a, that he could go that route. and the white house as either an executive order

. >> elizabeth wasserman with politico. thank you for being on "the communicators" this week. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> congress returns next week from recess at 2:00 p.m. eastern on monday. the house will turn to 2013 scuttle spending and reauthorization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. they will consider the nomination of stephanie rose to be a u.s. district court judge in iowa. watch live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span and the senate on c-span-2. >> so how do students cheat? let me count the ways. researchers conducted a 1993 study that tallied the cheating activities reported by students in various surveys. the laundry list includes copying from another student exam, taking an exam for someone else, purchasing term papers, copying material without footnotes, faking illness to avoid an exam, using notes or books during an exam when permitted, reviewing a stolen copy of an exam, given test questions t

elizabeth wasserman talks about what this fundamentally what this is really all about. >> at its corem to be a fear of losing connection. connection with others. connection with new sources connection with social networks. >> bill: it's really true. i don't know -- it could be any smart phone. might have to be an iphone. the fear of being without it and not being able to get your e-mail or your texts or make a phone call. i couldn't -- >> i also carry around my ipad wherever i go. it is never out of my sight. >> i hate to admit it but yeah. >> i was afraid she was going to say it was some kind of psychosexual problem. great, another one. [ laughter ] >> bill: it is. in love with our smart phones. that's what it is. >> i do use it all the time. >> bill: rich galen here to start us off this hour. senator sherrod brown from ohio will be joining us a little bit later in the hour. but dan is here. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making news, staying on the theme of the iphone, many people excited about the release but not so much about apple's new maps app

. >> host: gautham nagesh, brendan sasso, elizabeth wasserman, thank you all for being on "the communicators" this week. >> guest: thank you. >> "the communicators" also airs each monday night. if you missed any of this discussion on the technology and telecom issues expected in congress this fall, you can watch "the communicators" again tonight at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. and this program can be seen anytime online. log on to our web site at c-span.org, click the series tab and select "the communicators." you can also find other regularly-scheduled programs at the series link. c-span.org, your online resource for public atears programming. affairs programming. >> watch and engage as presidential candidates meet in 23 days for the first of three debates. as part of c-span's road to the white house coverage. coming up on c-span2, former president jimmy carter talks about u.s./cuba relations at a recent latin america conference. then congressional reporters share their insight on fiscal cliff issues scheduled to take effect early next year. and later, the senate returns from its summer