On the recordJanuary 10, 2014
I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania for yielding and for bringing the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act. Mr. Speaker, all we are saying here is if American families' personal information is stolen through this Web site, through the exchange Web site, they ought to be notified by the administration that their data was breached. And, of course, you have the White House actually coming out and saying they will veto this bill. What does the Obama administration have against protecting the privacy of American families' personal information? You have got an administration official who testified for our committee, the chief information security officer who actually said there is also no confidence that personal identifiable information will be protected. Well, if they can't ensure the protection--and by the way, the individual mandate says this is not an option for American families, they have to go through this exchange to get insurance that is approved by the government. So if the government is going to mandate it, and we don't want the government to mandate this, but if they are going to mandate it, they ought to be able to ensure that the data is protected. And if it is breached, they ought to notify them that this has happened. And yet they issue a veto threat against this. We need to pass this legislation and put this transparency in law. Pass this bill.
