Edolphus Towns: “Thank you Chairman Bono-Mack and Ranking member Butterfield for holding this hearing today on 'Made in America…”

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

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

Unfortunately the discussion draft before us today falls short of the commitment needed to ensure that the personal information of hard working Americans are kept safe.

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