Jerry Moran

I will push for a measure that I propose that would provide such authority, expanded FTC powers.

The FTC has a duty to investigate and discipline Google or any other company for any illegal actions that may have unfairly disadvantaged competitors and limited consumer choice.

I also urge that the Justice Department proceed vigorously and promptly with a criminal investigation.

If the entities that hold our data can't be trusted to protect it, then the government needs to have the right tools to not only go after the hackers and thieves, but also the companies that treat our financial lives with such abandon…

The hearing will come to order. Good afternoon, and welcome to today's hearing on FTC Stakeholder Perspectives: Reform Proposals to Improve Fairness, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare.

It's critical that we address these issues to prevent future data breaches.

I've seen evidence of this in the crop insurance world where big data can mine information about fraudulent behavior.

Insurance fraud is a major concern not only for insurers--who bear the cost of fraudulent claim payouts--but also consumers, who see those costs passed on to them in the form of higher premiums.

Good morning, everyone. I call the hearing of this Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security to order.

I look forward to your confirmation and believe that you are totally worthy of the opportunity to serve Americans.

We want an FCC Commission that works together that, even in differences of views and policy perspectives, takes the higher road.

I consider Ajit one of the most intelligent and hard-working, diligent public servants that I've ever met in my time in Congress.

They need to open the legislative process and that he's not interested in supporting what he calls a stamp of approval for bad policy.

I am concerned this will negatively impact farmers and ranchers, folks in Kansas who utilize that risk management tool.

One of the things that it suggests to me that increasing funding for NIH research, science brings new knowledge

I certainly want that to occur.

If we can devote additional resources into finding cures and delays in treatments of diseases, it's one of the suggestions I've made for a long time, we can do a significant benefit to the cost of healthcare in the United States.

I look forward to working with you on issues of concern for our veterans and our country.

We certainly would not want to lose that in this setting.

In my time in Congress, those arenas in which that bipartisanship still exists and works well has diminished.

We want you to succeed and we want to help you accomplish that.

I do not feel comfortable asking them to return to a Choice-first policy.

We do not want to see veterans at all impacted by our inability to manage budgets.

I am for that, and I am part of the effort to make sure that Choice is reauthorized in the long term.

I do not know how we have a Choice program that works for veterans.