I wish that you were as strenuous and hard working at keeping information out of the hands of hackers as you are keeping information out of the hands of Congress and Federal employees.

That is pretty basic, though. That is pretty basic, encrypting Social Security numbers.

Up until about an hour ago when the USA Freedom Act passed, the government in getting information about the general public was unfettered, warrantless gathering of information of the public.

Massachusetts happens to have a very robust consumer protection privacy framework that I think will be harmed.

This would be a complete obliteration. This would be--just total preemption so you will have one standard.

One of the problems I have is that this introduces a Federal standard and it takes out the States.

I actually think if we are going to look at new legislation, and I think we need to, we look at the authorizing statute for Inspectors General because the side deal between the FBI and the EPA to shut out the Inspector General is…

Maybe it is coming to a point where we just stop all the funding going over there, and that is the way we solve this.

With the amount of money we are spending over there, it is a disgrace that we don't have an accountable system.

Thank you for holding this hearing to examine the recent audit reports issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.

I just want to say that it probably reflects the new leadership, the new chairman, the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Chaffetz, that we are finally addressing this problem.