I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise today as a cosponsor of H.R. 3685, the Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act. I am very proud to do so. In my home State of South Dakota, there are nearly 8,000 volunteer…

Madam President, last night, due to airline flight delays in South Dakota and Minneapolis, I missed the roll call vote on the confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 452, Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be Chairman of the Board of…

Mr. President, this week the Senate is considering a couple of fairly big items. We had a vote earlier this week on a budget proposal to fund the government for the next couple of years, and we also are going to be voting on a defense…

Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of Dr. Janet Yellen to be chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. As we continue to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we need a strong and…

Madam President, a number of my colleagues have come down here, and we have done so on a number of occasions because most of us are getting emails and phone calls and letters in our offices of real- world, real-life experiences that people…

companies should provide reasonable access to the consumer data they maintain; the extent of access should be proportionate to the sensitivity of the data and the nature of its use.

I am putting these companies on notice that I am not satisfied and I have further steps that I can take to get this information.

I have been on the Intelligence Committee, and every day I wake up to seven newspapers with nothing but NSA headlines.

I am also interested in hearing from our witnesses how the industry can work to balance the privacy concerns of individuals with the information needs of businesses and our economy.

I will be asking our witnesses how data broker practices for marketing purposes may impact consumers, both positively and negatively.

the individualized access to consumers would likely outweigh the benefits for marketing purposes.

Data-driven marketing can provide benefits and greater convenience to consumers.

Madam President, I listened to the Senator from Alabama talk about the current budget debate we are having on the floor, and I couldn't help but think of the discussion we had when we were debating the ObamaCare legislation a few years ago…

We need to ensure that consumers are protected in this digital age.

So for purposes of Obamacare implementation, they are using you to authenticate people who are applying but not, at this moment, to market, the Federal Government.

I do want to add a special note of thanks to Tony Hadley from Experian.

Thank you, Madam President. I thank my colleague from North Dakota--both colleagues from North Dakota who are here in the Chamber--and I appreciate his leadership as a former Governor, understanding these issues such as health care, which…

Mr. President, as we consider some of the nominations before us, we are reminded that one of the reasons we have all these problems around the country associated with ObamaCare and all our constituents are being impacted in such a negative…