Sen. Johnson looks to tweak House-passed bill creating DHS cyber agency

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) is considering revisions to a House-passed bill that would reorganize the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate into a cybersecurity agency, while expressing optimism that the bill could move in the Senate in the coming weeks.

The House on Monday unanimously passed Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul’s (R-TX) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, which would create a cybersecurity agency within DHS, reorganizing and elevating existing...