After months of waiting, Senate waves through bill creating cyber agency at DHS

The Senate late Wednesday passed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act by unanimous consent, finally advancing a long-stalled bill that would rename the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate and elevate it to a cyber agency.

The so-called CISA bill, H.R. 3359, was passed as modified by a substitute amendment from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), the bill’s Senate sponsor, and another amendment from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that...