Edolphus Towns: “The taxpayers have now provided more than $180 billion in financial assistance to the AIG.”

The private sector can, and must, safeguard personal information.

Data theft still remains a very large burden for the American consumer that must be addressed by legislative action from this committee.

When it comes to data security, prevention is the best medicine and certainly the cheapest.

I am proud to stand with President Obama, who included this in his jobs proposal because of the opportunity it offers to assist with deficit reduction, something that we all are concerned about.