S.Amdt. 1722

SA 1722. Mr. KING submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF SENATE ON ESTABLISHMENT OF A SELECT
COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE ON CYBER MATTERS.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the Senate should establish a select committee on cyber
matters to be known as the ``Select Committee of the Senate
on Cyber'';
(2) the select committee should consist of such number of
members as the Senate determines appropriate, which members
should include at least one Senator who is also a member of
one or more of the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the
Committee on Commerce, the Committee on Appropriations, and
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate;
(3) the select committee should have a chair and a vice
chair, selected by the Majority Leader of the Senate and the
Minority Leader of the Senate, respectively;
(4) the select committee should have as ex officio members
the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Minority Leader of
the Senate; and
(5) the select committee should have legislative,
authorization, and oversight jurisdiction over the agencies
and activities of the Federal Government on cyber matters,
and should exercise such jurisdiction concurrently with any
other Committee the Senate having jurisdiction over such
agencies and activities under the Standing Rules of the
Senate in such manner as the Senate determines appropriate.
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