Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette). Ms. DeGETTE. Mr. Speaker, some mornings in Congress I wake up and I say, now here is a solution in search of a problem; and this morning is one of those days. We are hearing about how the Web site is not secure, how there can be security breaches. Ironically, we are hearing about security breaches with a private company, Target, and how terrible it is, and that is why we have to do a bill. But, in fact, we haven't seen any security breaches with healthcare.gov or the Web sites around the Affordable Care Act. And I want to stress that. {time} 0930 I am the ranking Democrat on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of Energy and Commerce, and we have had a number of hearings, and we have had classified briefings. Here is some information that is not classified information. There has been not one successful hack into www.healthcare.gov. Let me say that again. Nobody has successfully been able to breach www.healthcare.gov. Furthermore, as we have recently learned in a briefing, www.healthcare.gov, interestingly, has not been targeted any more than any other Federal Web site for hackers. So why are we doing this bill? I have got to associate myself with Ranking Member Pallone's comments, that the only reason we could be doing this bill is to try to have a chilling effect against people signing up to get health insurance through the Web sites. Let me say it again.…”