Josh Gottheimer: “Just one point I want to bring back up, if I may. I want to thank my friend for his comments, and I appreciate his work…”

“Just one point I want to bring back up, if I may. I want to thank my friend for his comments, and I appreciate his work and our efforts together here. The one point about the Social Security number that I want to raise is, the bill requires a study at the GAO to see what the best answer is, whether if that is a Federal identifier number or a Social Security number, whatever the best answer is. I know we spent a lot of time talking about this. I, too, am very concerned with making sure that we have the best possible outcome to protect people and protect their information. So if the GAO comes back and says that we need to develop a new Federal identifier so that we keep it separate from the Social Security number, then, to me, that would be the best outcome. That is exactly why the bill requires the GAO to study this. Again, just one other point, if we are concerned about current security and cybersecurity. Mr. McHENRY. Will the gentleman yield?”