I am so damn tired of being like to.

I don't think I can't deny it anymore. You can stick to your story if you think it flies. But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hey friends, thanks for tuning into the 120th episode of Congressional dish.

I'm your host Jennifer Braney.

So today's episode is a follow-up on a topic that has really become a theme in the 114th Congress, which is Cybersecurity.

In 2015 in the first year of the 114th Congress,

congressional distract three cybersecurity bills,

two that passed the House of Representatives,

and one, CISA that had passed the Senate.

All three bills were disturbing because while the details were different, all three bills gave

immunity to all private companies for sharing information with the government, much of it

automatically. And that information the government, much of it automatically.

And that information the government would then be allowed to use against us in court.

So these three cyber security slash surveillance bills, however you want to interpret them.

We're supposed to be carefully merged into one bill

and then get a final vote in both the House and the Senate.

But instead, a version of the merged bills that we had never seen before

was passed as an attachment to the 2016

government funding bill which was a 2,000 page bill that was created behind closed doors

that was available to read for just a couple of days before it was voted on and it became

law right before Christmas.

This so-called cyber security legislation was buried over 1700 pages deep into the government

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