Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, last week, my colleague, Haley Stevens, and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act. I am going to get to that in a minute. I woke up this morning to find that apparently this bill had gotten Mr. Musk's attention. I will read the tweet from that great statesman and special government employee, Elon Musk: ``Any given law will do the opposite of its name. ``The one this guy wants to pass is called `Taxpayer Protection,' which means its real goal is giving taxpayers the shaft! ``What he really cares about is hiding the biggest scam in human history.'' Those are his words, the great statesman, Elon Musk. I would point out that we attack what we fear. As Teddy Roosevelt said: It is the man in the ring who matters. I would like to give Mr. Musk a little view from inside this ring. A couple of weeks ago, Elon Musk and his goons hacked into the Treasury payment system. That is the system that controls $5 trillion a year of payments. They came in with unsecured software, unsecured hardware, and unvetted individuals. They claimed they only had read-only access. It now turns out that they actually had write access, as well. We don't know what information they extracted from that system, but it may make them targets of our foreign adversaries. They could have stolen data that affects the privacy of every single American taxpayer.…”