Members of the U.S. House Homeland Security and Oversight Committees have reached out to Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), urging the agency to streamline duplicative and resource-heavy cybersecurity regulations. They argued that these burdensome requirements divert critical infrastructure owners and operators from actively defending their networks.
Mark E. Green, a Republican representative from Tennessee and the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security; James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Clay Higgins, a Los Angeles Republican and chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement; Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican and chairwoman of the subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation; and Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona and member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have in a letter asked the OMB to reduce compliance burdens by reviewing existing and future cyber regulations, identifying opportunities for harmonization within and across agencies, and thoroughly examining the existing cyber regulatory landscape for redundancy in coordination with the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).