troubling recent events such as the hack of Equifax continue to show light on the dark world of data brokers and data mining.

I hope this committee can continue to investigate and understand this important technology and the impacts that it will have.

I think this warrants further investigation.

The need for net neutrality was borne out of a long history of anti-consumer and anti-competitive behavior.

the FTC for all intents and purposes is a toothless tiger.

The majority does not seem content to merely strip Americans of their legal and regulatory protections.

Repealing these rules will have grave consequences on consumers and the vibrance of the online ecosystem.

the Chairman is getting ready to allow broadband providers to block and edit speech on the internet at their discretion

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are powerful tools that are reshaping our country and our economy.

the only way you have privacy today is, I call it to go Flintstone, to have the old flip phone

I believe that cybersecurity is a multi-billion-dollar hoax. And I'm sure what we're going to do, we're going to spend untold billions trying to come up with these systems that, as Mr. Kuttner says, it's a fantasy.

Last week's cyber attack to produce the wrong reasons--the wrong lessons. The immediate takeaway seems to be that large institutions need much better cybersecurity systems. But there's a much simpler and better solution. Vital systems that…

Mr. Speaker, former first lady of South Carolina, Iris Campbell, wife of the late Governor Carroll Campbell, passed away last week. South Carolinians are grateful for her dedication to our citizens. Born in Greenville, Iris Campbell was…

Large deficits in debt over a long period of time raise interest rates above levels where they normally would be and crowd out private investment and are bad for growth and productivity.

Now NIH needs, I think, to be a fair broker in all this so that the right compounds get the right money spent on them to develop them.

I am encouraged by your thoughtfulness about taking a look at the asset thresholds that may be a part of Senator Crapo's legislative package.

the current interest rate environment cuts really into your ability to live off of your interest income.

I do expect that rates will continue to go up, and that will feed through into the interest rates that your constituent is having.