mr. lieberman: politics can change. thank you for being with us.hank you for sticking here as long as you have. everyone who is still here will get my personal cal ripken award for stamina. look, we had at least 1,500 people here. eight presidential candidates spoke to this group. i think today is the day, thanks to an enormous amount of work by nancy jacobson and a whole no labels team including john broder and renee plumber here in new hampshire. today is the day the no labels problem solving brand of politics became part of the mainstream of america's presidential election of 2016. and that -- [applause] mr. lieberman: and there was no better place for this to happen than in new hampshire. because, listen, you could make a difference, independents, undeclared voters, voting in the primaries. you've got a tremendous opportunity to nominate some problem solving candidates in both parties for president. so from the bottom of my heart, thank you. as somebody who has toiled in the political fields in america for a long time over the last few years ha

mr. carper: six years ago, senator feinstein, you along with senator collins, joe lieberman, jay rockefeller offered the first comprehensive bill dealing with information-sharing. we had a vote in late-2012, came up short and started all over again in the last congress. you've shown great leadership from the start. i want to thank you. i have been joined on the floor by senator burr. i want to thank you for cooperating with us and with others to make sure we have not just a good bill but a really good bill that addresses one of the greatest challenges we face today in this country of ours. the -- i've heard senator feinstein say it time and again. if companies don't want to share information with the federal government rkt the, they don't . in some cases they can form their own groups. they don't have to share information on -- attacks with the federal government. they can share it with other pierpeers if they wish to. imbut if they do, we ask that it be shared with the homeland security because the department of homeland security is set up in large part to provide a privacy scrub. we'll hav

mr. president. regrettably, this is the third attempt to pass a cybersecurity information sharing bill in recent years. in 2012, the liebermanlins cybersecurity act of 2012 was on the floor and included a title on information sharing which fell to the intelligence committee. it was an important piece of legislation, but it only received one republican vote. last congress, then-vice-chairman of intelligence, saxby chambliss, and i set out to draft a narrower bill in the hopes of attracting bipartisan spowmplet the intelligence committee approved a bill in 2014 by a strong bipartisan vote of 12-3. but it never reached the senate floor due to privacy concerns. so this is the third try. i'm very pleased that chairman burr and i now have the opportunity to bring a bill to the floor that both sides can and should support. this bill is bipartisan. it is narrowly focused, and it puts in place a number of privacy protections, many of which we will outline shortly. i believe the bipartisan vote of 14-1 in the senate intelligence committee in march underscores this fact. i'd like to commend senator burr's leadership and his willingne