Sen Carper anticipates White House will release cyber order after State of the Union

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) said the White House has signaled that it will likely release the cybersecurity order it's crafted over the last several months in the second half of February, following President Obama's State of the Union address.

After the White House releases the order, Chairman Carper said he plans to hold a joint hearing with the Commerce and Intelligence committees to discuss the measures included in the order with Administration officials, as well as to hear stakeholders' feedback on it. "The administration is going to proffer next month an executive order, we think in the second half of February," said Chairman Carper. "I think the smart thing for us to do would be to receive it, to read it, and I raised this as a possibility with [Commerce Committee] Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller [D-W.Va.] today: Maybe the relevant committees do a joint hearing ... and invite the administration to come in, explain the executive order, and invite other folks to come in and react to the executive order," Chairman Carper said.