I hope the committee will focus on how the practices of the credit reporting and data collection industries affect consumers.

This market is failing American consumers, and that is why Congress and consumer watchdogs must step in.

Our subcommittee has been bipartisan in demanding answers for breach victims. We should now be bipartisan in pursuing action.

Keeping these rules in place is the fastest and surest way to protect consumers.

Equifax is only providing victims with protections for 1 year. It refuses to give people meaningful control over how Equifax shares and sells the personal information that it collects.

Equifax says that it is, and I quote, 'taking responsibility for its failures,' but Equifax is only providing victims with protections for 1 year.

The bill that Ranking Member Schakowsky and I introduced, the Secure and Protect Americans' Data Act, would close some of those holes.

Consumers deserve a Federal backstop when that data is compromised.

The FCC's current net neutrality protections provide the strongest protections for free speech and innovation online and have been upheld by the court.

Unfortunately, the FCC is working to undo these protections at the behest of a few large corporations.

We need to put more money into it.

These were positive steps in the right direction, but committee Democrats have repeatedly stated that they were never enough.