This is a classic bait-and-switch--a tactic which this President and this EPA are making routine practice.

Madam President, it has been called to my attention that there are some people who are trying to respond to the fact that we have such high prices of gasoline at the pumps in a totally unrealistic way, in a way that is class warfare, in a…

Let me ask you on a couple of things, where are we as far as timeline on the fiduciary rules?

We think that there are--although we do not have a specific proposal, there are undoubtedly--there is a reasonable period of time that Congress can require providers to retain data...

What I find is in Congress a lot of time we talk past each other.

Like writing in plain English instead of lawyerese?

There is no comprehensive Federal legal requirement that requires data breach reporting either to customers or law enforcement.

So the question I would have for you is: Do you have the ability to implement that now under the FTC guidelines?

I hope after you all testify that you will hang around and listen to the second panel.

Transparency in what we do in government and outside of government, when it is not fiduciary and when it is not proprietary, is important for the American people, as is the issue of privacy.

The cyber stalking statute requires currently that the victim and the defendant actually be in different States...

I understand that. But once they are in your app store----

I think we need to be very careful on this idea of security because the greatest example I know is we spend $64 billion a year on IT in the Federal Government, and then on top of that, we spend tens of billions on security, and we are…

There are a number of further fixes to 1030, to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...

Can you do that through regulation now? Can you make those demands through regulation?

Would you mind submitting to the Committee which are which so that it can guide us in addressing where we think we might need to go?

Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in America. One side sees the child in the womb as nothing but tissue, like a skin mole, and no one should tell a women when and if she can have an unnecessary and inconvenient tissue removed…

I think we need to find a solution to that.