Does the consumer have any right to know what this information is or who it's being transmitted to?

As far as having access to a credit score be free as part of the package, I think right now that's a legislative issue

It is vital for this Committee and this Congress to fully understand the real impacts to Native Americans of the sequester as well as the potential impacts of the Fiscal Year 2014 requests.

No single enactment has had a more profound effect on more tribal communities than has the Indian Self-Determination Act.

I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting this important legislation. I yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

I join my colleague Senator Reed of Rhode Island and I thank Senators Enzi and Durbin for their hard work on S. 743. I rise to speak in favor of the Marketplace Fairness Act. This legislation will put businesses in Hawaii on an even…

I applaud the President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for prioritizing fisheries science and making targeted investments in fisheries research and management.

I would like to continue to work with the Members of the Committee and with all of you to seek improvements on the family provisions.

I am concerned that this bill will no longer provide a meaningful opportunity for U.S. citizens to petition for their siblings.

I think there are probably some ways that we can allow for these kinds of family members to come in

I think it allows our priorities to be where they ought to be in terms of enforcement.

I believe that the new merit-based visa system will exclude many immigrant family members from reuniting with their U.S. citizen siblings.

I rise to speak in support of the nomination of Derrick Kahala Watson to be a district judge for the U.S. District Court of Hawaii. But before I discuss this nomination, I would like to join with the rest of my colleagues in acknowledging…

I plan to work with the chairman and others on this committee to get congressional consent for these amendments.

The reason that we're going to try to fast-track this legislation... is according to the most recent information from the Bureau of Reclamation, the Klamath Basin... has experienced the second driest January through March period on record.

Can we have a better understanding of revenue and expenses and the cash balance there.

Your hearing today, Mr. Chairman, S. 693, the city of Hermiston Water Recycling and Reuse Project, this is extraordinarily important to Hermiston, one of our Eastern Oregon communities.

I am authorized to state that Chairman Wellinghoff does not oppose S. Amdt. 579 or H.R. 316.