mr. lipinski: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to commend ms. sanchez for her work on this amendment and also on cybersecurity in general and homeland security committee. from my time as a university professor i understand the importance first of all of the cooperation between the private sector and universities. it's something i feel very strongly about that we need to improve that and certainly cybersecurity is especially important. the other thing that i understand is the need to have information. the more information sharing that we can have, the better we can do with cybersecurity. this amendment helps accomplish both those things so i strongly support, urge my colleagues to support and vote for this amendment. i yield back to ms. sanchez. the chair: the gentlelady from california. ms. sanchez: thank you, mr. speaker. i believe i have no further speakers, therefore i urge my colleagues to support my amendment and the underlying bill. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentlelady yield back. the question is

mr. lipinski: i thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for yielding. i know a lot of people have talked about jack murtha as a giant, and i really think that this institution probably will not see another man like jack murtha in many ways. but i really think what stands out most to me and what comes through here is that jack murtha had a heart of gold. he really cared about people. he cared about the men and women in our armed forces. he cared about his colleagues. he cared about his constituents greatly, especially in his hometown of johnstown, pennsylvania. i really didn't get to meet jack murtha until i was elected in 2004, but i feel like i started to get to know him before that. in 2000, i started dating judy, who is now my wife and she is from his hometown. so i go to visit judy's family in johnstown and i would hear people talk about jack murtha. i would see what jack murtha did for his district. and i knew that his constituents, especially the people of johnstown loved jack murtha. when i was elected, i would often go and say hello to jack over

mr. gordon: thank you, madam chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i would like to begin by thanking my colleagues, dr. lipinski, dr. ehlers, mr. wu, and mr. smith, and mr. hall for their contributions to the good bipartisan bill we are considering today. i also would like to take a moment to thank the various staffers who worked on this bill, marcy, travis, dala, and mike on the majority side. dan and malay on the minority side. we could not bring a good bill like this together without their help. last fall the house passed a resolution recognizing national cybersecurity awareness month. the resolution stated that we will need to build strong partnerships between federal agencies, business, and nongovernmental organizations and educational institutes in order to enhance the state of cybersecurity in the united states. h.r. 4061 implements this principle of public-private partnerships in three areas. coordinating and prioritizing the federal cybersecurity r&d portfolio. improving the transfer of cybersecurity technologies to the marketplace. and training the i. t. work force that can meet the growing needs of b