Well, I am not sure about that. But I want you to know that both Lloyd Doggett, who is a Democrat, by the way, and I agree that something needs to be done.

Mr. McDermott, I agree with you. They refuse to do anything.

Does CMS support our bipartisan bill, H.R. 781, the Medicare Identify Theft Prevention Act of 2013? Yes or no?

Well, when are you going to do that?

How many Americans will have their Social Security numbers collected, stored, and reported?

Well, but under this law, you are giving those numbers to your employer. Now we just give them to the IRS when we file our tax return. How are you going to protect those numbers?

Well, how are we going to protect them? You know we are losing them.

Well, that is not very convincing. I think it is going to be tough to assure every American that their most private information is safe from criminals because they are attacking us every day.

one of my long-standing priorities has been to protect American Social Security numbers.

the expansion of information technology to include additional products would have significant benefit for U.S. manufacturers and consumers.

Our request this year is for 34.6 based on our best assessment that given our removal priorities...