Ed Markey: “I agree. The conferees did not intend that the ``reasonable demonstration'' requirement would substantially burden…”

“I agree. The conferees did not intend that the ``reasonable demonstration'' requirement would substantially burden either consumers or the person providing the electronic record. In fact, the conferees expect that a ``reasonable demonstration'' could be satisfied in many ways. Does the gentleman from Virginia agree with me that conferees intend that the reasonable demonstration requirement is satisfied if the provider of the electronic records sent the consumer an e-mail with attachments in the formats to be used in providing the records, asked the consumer to open the attachments in order to confirm that he could access the documents, and requested the consumer to indicate in an e-mail response to the provider of the electronic records that he or she can access information in the attachments?”