ruppersberger. mr. ruppersberger: our bill is extremely limited and we are attempting to allow our government, intelligence community to give the information that's necessary to protect our citizens from these cyber attacks. ours is the most active bill that is out there now. our bill hopefully will pass and go to the senate and lot more negotiations. there is a lot more work to do such as homeland security. and i know there are some issues involved in homeland security markup. i know that there are issues involving judiciary. and i can say this. i know that the chairman and i for one year now have worked very openly with every group that we think would be involved in this bill. and because of different positions taken, including aclu and other positions and this bill is better and hope that it passes. we clearly will work with you, but we on the intelligence committee are very limited to our jurisdiction. and that's why a lot of these issues we can't deal with other than what is in our bill right now.

she will now take on democrat dutch ruppersberger. to get more, log on to our political paifnlgt you'll see stories surrounding democracy 2012. just go to abc2news.com/politics. >>> governor martin o'malley has been pushing for more highway projects but that means raising our taxes and that is not a popular idea but a local business organization, the greater baltimore committee is proposing just. that they site a -- cite a new study that would stimulate growth and create new jobs. the greater baltimore committee said new infrastructure projects are just what our state needs. >> to make sure that the money we raised is used for the purpose for which it's intended. let's make the investments to move our state forward. >> most of the recommend projects are in the baltimore, d.c., metropolitan area. >> she knows we have a problem. senator barbara mikulski has a plan to make sure we were get the drugs we need and no more authoritiages. >>> it's time to hit the gym at brick bodies. we'll meet the challengers. they will tell their story. >>>

were you at all bothered think that, congressman ruppersberger. >> to begin with, whatever you're sayingrecord, who knows what the meaning was? i have confidence the president is making the right decisions in the decisions with the middle east and everywhere else. also with respect to russia, putin, as we know, is a strong leader. he was former kgb. and so we have to work our relationship with them. politics, a lot of things happen in politics. people are trying to get elected. i'm not going to make a judgment what he said. i have confidence in the president and that he is going to do the right thing to protect our country 100%. >> i've got to leave it there. we've run out of time. >> i disagree. >> we finally disagree. >> you were uncomfortable with the remark? >> i'm very uncomfortable and what it means for the united states and what it means for our missile defense posture and our allies' reaction to it, all very troubling. >> congressman rogers, congressman ruppersberger, thank you very much. >>> he has not locked up the republican nomination, but mitt romney is already thinking abou

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short on votes, state senator nancy jacobs didn't mind the turnout, in her bid to take on dutch ruppersberger after all she won most of those votes in a runaway victory. >> from now on it's ditch dutch and i think we've got a really good shot at doing that because, you know, as we were coming out of polls today, you wouldn't believe the number of the democrats who were coming up to us and taking literature and saying i'm sorry i couldn't vote for you, i'm a democrat, but i'm going to vote for you in november. >> and that was jeff hager reporting. we told you just a few moments ago about daniel von gino, how does the current senator ben carden think about that. christian shaver has the details. reporter: and it turned into a commanding victory for senator carden winning the democratic nomination by more than 50 percentage points over state senator anthony hughes of prince georges county, here in locust point is where the state's democratic powers gathered to celebrate. >> my friend ben. reporter: a commanding victory for ben carden who will now have the opportunity to defend his seat in the ge

heading up the cyber war committees are also the ones who are sponsoring this bill both dutch ruppersberger and mike rogers are ranking members of the permanent select committee on intelligence and rogers explain that he's backing this bill because every day u.s. businesses are targeted by nation state actors like china for cyber exploitation and theft the broad base of support for this bill shows that congress recognizes the urgent need to help our private sector better defend itself from these insurgent attacks how convenient you're throwing a little line about china being the bad guys and the fear. longer the fear mongering the crap out of politicians until they side on that is bill but sadly that's kind of what's happening thus far this bill already has one hundred sponsors after all you want to speak out against national security and those are the only politicians in favor of cis why there are a large number of corporations that are voicing their support see facebook microsoft horizon and i.b.m. they're all months of corporations who think that since it's a good idea according to andre

the of the bill are now getting the picture the original co-sponsors congressman mike rogers and ruppersberger announce of their open to changes today amendments are proposed in a hearing and over all these amendments of lassoing the government creating limits on how they could use the data handed over from the companies saying if the information could only be used to protect national security and couldn't be used in any other instances beyond anything labeled as a cyber threat but a cyber threat is still very vague so that really could be enough to make this a good bill we're going to get into that tomorrow but for now just know the opposition is gaining some traction. well there are a lot of eyes directed at the public display of military power from pakistan today as less than a week after india test fired a nuclear capable missile they did the same but considering that diplomatic negotiations between the two countries have been on the upswing lately is it really worth worrying about or is that just the typical nuclear brinkmanship where even frenemies have to every now and then remind each

ruppersberger, people on both sides of the aisle. finally i also want to take a second to thank the staff of the various committees who have worked on this issue as well as josh martin, michael seeds of my office, as well as general stewart, the speaker's national security advisor whose guidance on substance and process was invaluable. mr. speaker, we will have ample opportunity to debate the merits of the individual pieces of legislation, but i think it's important at the beginning just to step back and say why all this hubbub about computers? what does all that mean? i think we should start with the point that cyber, and that includes networks connected to the internet and networks that are not connected to the internet, but cyber is deeply ingrained in virtually every facet of our lives now. from the time we get up till the time we go to sleep. and all the times in between. we very much depend on cyberand anything you very much depend on can and often does become a vulnerability. so we know of it at least three different kinds of

. >> reporter: congressman dutch ruppersberger, helping to launch the new stem exhibit at fort discoveryano fabulous. kids learn how scientists discover and invent. >> technology is so important to the future of our country. and our younger generations need to other learn math, science, physics. and hopefully some of these children who were here today will be innocenced by having fun -- influenced by having fun and learning technology. >> they are truly very excited about learning about science. they are excited approximate learning. and they know that learning and fun can go together. >> it was created by professors and grad students at the university of maryland, materials research science and engineering center. >> only 4% of americans are scientists. and that's not very good for us. we need to expose them to things they're not used to seeing. >> reporter: jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. >> and university of maryland researchers will lead lessons and take families through the exhibit. >> that looked pretty cool. >> it did. >> check that out. >>> still to come tonight on wjz ey

. >> reporter: congressman dutch ruppersberger, helping to launch the new stem exhibit at port discovery, called nano fabulous. kids learn how scientists discover and invent. >> technology is so important to the future of our country. and our younger generations needle to learn math, science, physics. and hopefully some of these children who were here today will be influenced by having fun and learning technology. >> they are truly very excited about science. they are excited about learning. and they know that learning and fun can go together. >> reporter: the nano fabulous concept was created by professors and grad students at the university of maryland's materials research science and engineering center. >> only 4% of americans are scientists. and that's not very good for us. so we need to expose them to things they're not used to seeing. >> reporter: jessica kartalija, wjz eyewitness news. >> and university of maryland researchers will lead lessons and take families through the exhibit. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news tonight. drivers in danger. what led to a car chase and shootout

ruppersberger and members of the committee and worked with the privacy groups and civil libertarian answer --s. and this doesn't do anything. i get it, it sounds great and you are going to run out and do some bad things with it. this is our nation's defense. this is the last thing we need to do to protect this country. we have done it since 9/11. we did homeland security. we've done the patriot act. we have done other things that this body and the other body and the president of the united states signed to protect this country as our constitution tells us to do for the common defense of this great nation. and i'll tell you something, we can have this debate. we can talk about a bill that does absolutely nothing to protect someone's private password at home or get about the business to try to give the private sector just a little bit of information to protect people's private information in the comfort of their home so we can protect this nation from a catastrophic attack. the director of the national security didn't say maybe, could happen, they said it will happen. this is the one small t

congressmen rogers and ruppers -- ruppersberger have worked together to articulate the need for cyberintelligence, our sharing and protection. the cyberintelligence sharing and protection act will help us fight against cyberattackers and hackers that want to steal our private or our government information. it also maintains protections for individuals' privacy. the bill's language is specific. it doesn't allow the government to use shared information for noncybersecurity purposes. it requires an independent inspector general to audit volunteer information shared with the government. the voluntary information sharing framework is preferable because incentive-base security works better than heavy handnd mandates but the white house and senate democrats disdepre with the technology experts. -- disagree with the technology experts. they think there is a cookie cutter way of addressing cybersecurity challenges. we shouldn't pretend we have all the challenges and we should not and cannot allow the government's massive bureaucracy to expand. it's constantly suffocating innovation and entrepreneurship in

important legislation is authored by chairman mike rogers and co-sponsored by ranking member dutch ruppersberger. and i thank the gentleman and yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information. the gentleman in his comments indicates we might go to conference on the surface transportation bill. as the gentleman knows the senate surface transportation bill passed overwhelmingly and with a very substantial bipartisan vote and a vote led by senator boxer and senator inhofe of oklahoma. there were 22 republican senators, about half the republican senators voted for it. and so it passed overwhelmingly. i'm wondering given the time frame in which we are dealing whether or not the gentleman feels comfortable with some assurance that we are going to move to go to conference so we can get a conference under way. i know that's -- the majority indicated it wanted a bill so it could go to conference. i have had discussions with i think you, but i know mr. boehner, the speaker, and mr. mccarthy that that was the intent. to go to conference. would it be -- what would preclude us, i suppose, wo

on intelligence mike rogers and ruppersberger have taken a lead on what the nsa is doing.meland security side you have several. lieberman-collins we mentioned earlier. house side, dan lundgren we mentioned. dan clark the ranking member of house security subcommittee and house homeland. you also have peter king and bennie thompson ranking members of the house homeland security full committee. there is house cybersecurity caucus where you have mike mccaul who we mentioned earlier. and one other person who has been very active on the house side has been mack thornberry, a congressman from texas was in charge of cybersecurity task force and has been engaged on these issues since the beginning. house homeland security committee back in 2002. >> host: give us a sense how big this issue will get in the years to come. >> guest: given every single one ever us has a smartphone, internet connected television, using computer technologies to run our every-day lives. you have all the critical infrastructures that the banking the financial industries, electric grids we talked about earli

cyberintelligence sharing and protection act, this was released by representatives rogers and ruppersberger and federal information security amendments act by representative issa. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have a brief question for you in regards to how you plan on the bill that you sponsored to implement the advances of private companies and nonprofit companies have in giving you information. and what you need in regards to completing the task of getting everyone intertwined and safely involved narcotic to protecting their systems. do you plan own doersing competitive bidding processes for these companies in regards to this supervision of or daning that information or working on those projects? guest: any of the information sharing, the -- i didn't hear his question in terms of the intelligence bill so i do want to speak to that. any of these information sharing concepts we have, let me say first and foremost, they're completely voluntary. this is a -- any private company, again, 90% of the critical infrastructures are controlled by the private sector, so what w