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Maxine Waters: “I rise in support of H.R. 5835, the Veterans Identity and Credit Security Act. Earlier this year, millions of veterans…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2006
I rise in support of H.R. 5835, the Veterans Identity and Credit Security Act. Earlier this year, millions of veterans saw their economic security threatened when several VA computers were stolen from a Veterans Administration (VA) employee's home. While it appears that no veteran was a victim of ID theft, the VA was ill-prepared to deal with the lost of this highly personal and confidential information. While I am pleased to support this bill, which will help safeguard veterans' personal information in the future, I urge this Congress to immediately pass legislation that will protect all Americans from ID theft, not just our veterans. The threat of ID theft is too important to ignore any longer. Data security is an issue that we have labored over for months, and while this will protect America's veterans from breaches of data security, the American public wants Congress to act to protect its private information as well.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing the need for the Veterans Identity and Credit Security Act and broader ID theft protections.

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