Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to respond very briefly to what our colleague from Oregon has said. Senator Feinstein shared with me a copy of the actual text of the managers' amendment. I would maybe make two points. One, if a private company elects to share information--they don't have to, but if they elect to share information, as Senator Feinstein has said, it is their call. But if they do, there is a requirement under the law that they scrub it. The reporting entity which is submitting the indicator--in this case to DHS, the Federal entity--has to scrub it. They have the responsibility, whoever is initiating this, to scrub and remove that personally identifiable information. If for some reason they don't, the way the legislation comes before us today, in order for a company that chooses to submit threat indicators to the Federal Government, in order to get help on the liability protection they are looking for, they have to submit it through the Department of Homeland Security, through the portal of the Department of Homeland Security, which is literally set up to do privacy scrubs. It is literally set up to do privacy scrubs, and then to share information it wants with other relevant Federal agencies.…”