Political Quotes

“I say to the Presiding Officer--and the Senator who is about to become the Presiding Officer--I appreciated the work of you two together, in tandem, today for two nominees in front of the Agriculture Committee. I thank you. (Mr. SASSE assumed the Chair.) Mr. President, I rise to talk for a moment about a hearing yesterday, which the Presiding Officer sat through, too, with the outgoing CEO of Equifax. We know what happened with Equifax, yet we really don't know entirely what happened. We know there was a breach of Equifax's information, and 145 million Americans--more than half of the adult population in our country--had their data breached. Criminals will now have access to the data of far too many Americans. I am hopeful because I and Senator Crapo, the chairman of the committee, and others on the committee were pretty unhappy--not to speak for others, certainly, but we were pretty unhappy with Equifax's performance yesterday because we didn't get a lot of answers to a number of our questions. When you think about what we do with medical language, with our personal medical information, we have laws to say that our personal medical information belongs to us. We, of course, can share it with a hospital or a doctor or whomever we want, but our doctor can't share it with other doctors without our permission. Our hospital can't share it with other hospitals without our permission. But our personal financial data doesn't fall into those categories.…”