House Intelligence chairman aims for cybersecurity bill markup in April

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) said he is aiming to wrap up talks with the White House and privacy advocates about measures in his information-sharing cybersecurity bill by April so it can move to a markup.

"We're still negotiating a lot of little pieces of the bill with privacy groups and the White House, and we're having great conversations with both Democrat and Republican senators now, so I'm hoping to have that wrapped up by April, where we can actually move a product in April," Chairman Rogers said in an interview with The Hill at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco. Chairman Rogers said the recent talks with the White House have been encouraging and that the release of President Obama's cybersecurity executive order this month is a positive political development for the information-sharing bill. "We're negotiating, we're talking, which is better than what happened last year, and I'm encouraged by that," he said. "Here's the good news, everybody agrees that we need an information-sharing [measure] now. The executive order, I think, takes pressure off the Senate from having to pass a infrastructure standards mandate or bill. That's great. That means the one thing we can get bipartisan agreement on is this cyber sharing portion. I think it actually increases our chances of getting a product to the President's desk for signature."