The fear of losing what I earned versus the fear of being sexually assaulted again, I do not know which one was more important.

I thank the chairman, and appreciate his strong, effective leadership in the Veterans' Affairs Committee. At a committee hearing last year, the VA publicly admitted to me it was too difficult to fire bad employees. The situation is so dire…

I strongly support the chief provisions in the proposed Federal BOTS Act of 2016, bill S. 3183.

Let me begin my questioning by making sure I have an understanding of what's legal and what's illegal.

Maybe somebody is sitting in the audience today being inspired by you with the desire to pursue a career of public service.

I've detected that you have a great--I don't mean this in an offensive way--a great political skill.

We want to thank Senators Moran, Schumer, Fischer, and Blumenthal for introducing this legislation to benefit fans, artists, and live event venues alike.

Please do, yes. Please let us know.

Can there be some legislation to stop these companies from making such large profits and hurting the average consumer?

Which the Senate bill does not have.

I guess your point was really about knowing the market.

I mean, my point is that while we talked about--Mr. Cohen, you, in particular, talked about the disadvantages, the wrongness of holdbacks, their consequences.

How many of them are there?

I look forward to a robust discussion today about many of these proposals.

Thank you very much.

I believe it is appropriate to make the use of bots an unfair and deceptive practice if used to circumvent an Internet website's ticket access control measures.

I would like to put in the record a number of letters that I received from my constituents about this practice.

If there was a broader discussion to occur, who needs to be involved in that conversation?