OMB Would Advise President to Veto CISPA

In an advisory issued Tuesday in advance of planned House
debate on CISPA, the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act, the Office
of Management and Budget said that the bill, as currently crafted, should not
get the president's signature.

While OMB said it "recognizes and appreciates"
changes made by the bill's backers to incorporate theadministration's concerns, it said that without additional improvements,
"if the bill, as currently crafted, were presented to the president, his
senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill."

The concerns the Administration expressed are essentially
the sameones proposed by a quartet of Democratic legislators.

Abouta year ago, the White House similarly threatened to veto the previous
incarnation of CISPA.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.