it has been brewing through and senator burr and fienstein came to an agreement and i think it will be marked up next week. we have tom carper who is reviewing president obama's legislative proposal on cybersecurity. a little more modest than the intel bill. i don't know how this is all going to work out. but one role that certainly the homeland security committee can play in this is we can hold hearings and continue to hold hearings. if there is a component of any bill that might eventually work its way to the floor we can hold hearings. and i will tell you one thing i want to make sure of and that is whatever liability protection it provides actually works. i am not interested in information sharing in name only bill. we have an interesting letter from 29 chief counsel counsels of major corporations pointing out how important is to get this across the goal line. i will be going back to the chief counsels and soliciting input from others. and my question is based on what is reported from the city and liability protection we are evaluated and whatever gets to the floor and gets voted o

the approach i would prefer is something like senator fienstein is working on and the approaches being taken in the house. bit this is going to play out over the next several months and we look forward to working with boat sides. we think information sharing should be balanced appropriately with privacy. i don't think we are that far apart on the issues. i think we can work together and hopefully come to a reasonable conclusion. >> we are open to ideas and feel we need to follow the basic framework it needs to come through a civilian place to make sure we have the oversight, privacy is being protected as it happens, and liability protections are targeted to sharing. if we could stay in that framework there is lots of ways that information can be shared as long as we hit those key holes the administration is going to be supportive of the legislation. >> we focus more on the private to private side. whu talk in private to government the issue is should it go through civilian agencies or intelligence agencies and our view in the past has been the legislation that was coming from the senat