From: The Hill
By Julian Hattem and Kate Tummarello
THE LEDE: Financial trade groups are renewing their call for lawmakers to take up cybersecurity legislation this year.
A dozen organizations including the American Bankers Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and Credit Union National Association made an 11th-hour bid for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) to the floor on Thursday. The request came hours before the upper chamber skipped town for the August recess and shows that the financial industry will continue to make the issue a priority.
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