Rodney Frelinghuysen: “I rise in support of H.R. 2590, the Treasury and Postal Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002. I congratulate Chairman…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 2590, the Treasury and Postal Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002. I congratulate Chairman Istook on his leadership on this bill. This bill meets our requirements under the Balanced Budget Act and properly provides for critical operations of the Treasury Department and other important agencies. I also want to thank the Subcommittee, in particular, for including a requirement that I requested to prevent federal government websites from collecting personal information on citizens who access federal websites and doing so without the knowledge of the person visiting the site. This is an important policy for our government--it is a policy that makes clear that we will lead by example when it comes to protecting peoples' privacy on the web. Mr. Chairman, last year I added a provision to the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations bill to prohibit federal agencies funded under this bill from using funds to monitor and collect personally identifiable information from the public who access government websites.”