Political Quotes

“Madam President, today, we will vote on a resolution that will take away privacy protections from the American people. By voting for this resolution, Congress is ignoring the fact that people want more protections online, not fewer. In 2016, Pew did a study to determine the state of privacy in the United States, and the center found ``Americans express a consistent lack of confidence about the security of everyday communication channels and the organizations that control them.'' Pew found that this is especially true when it comes to the internet. People no longer trust organizations--public or private--to protect the data they collect. Today, we are going to make that worse. That is because broadband providers know our complete browsing history. Think about that for a second. They know everything we do online, everything we search for on a daily basis. Think about how personal that information is, how it paints a picture of who we are. It is totally reasonable for broadband providers to have to ask customers for their consent before they take that information--our browsing history, what we do online--and sell it to a third party. That will no longer be the case after the Republicans vote for this bill and it is enacted into law. Broadband providers will be able to take your browsing history and sell it without your permission.…”