In a large business with big acquisitions, the CEO is getting a report every week, whether it is on time or on budget.

I called for them to cancel it 2½ years before they canceled it.

Some of the times when we bring in a big system, what I have noticed, especially in the Defense Department--not exclusively--is we modify a proven system that we are buying to fit our needs, rather than modifying, much as you said, General…

We passed the DATA Act out of here, and the thing that will not change is the requirement to know what you spent and where you spent it and be able to account for it.

Of all the billions that we have wasted in IT, not once have I ever found where we went after the supplier for non-performance.

IT is one of the areas where we waste more money than any other area in the government, except the Pentagon when you take IT out.

This is the first hearing I have been to in a long time that, really, there are a whole lot more positives than there are negatives, and I congratulate you all on it.

Which is ridiculous.

one of the reasons I am a big Jeh Johnson fan is I think he is a good manager.

Will the Senator yield for a moment, just for a question? Is the Senator aware that I never voted for any of the money for that spending? (Ms. HEITKAMP assumed the Chair.)

Thank you. The most senior Member of our body understands the differences he and I have on a lot of issues. Most of what he said is true in his statement about the sacrifices and the effectiveness. Where we have a difference of agreement…

Private health insurance will be dead in 3 years.

There will be no insurance industry left in 3 years.

I would like to spend some time talking about the bill that is on the floor. I thank my colleagues from Oregon and Virginia. I have enjoyed working with them. The bill we have on the floor is one of the reasons I am leaving Congress at the…

If we create the expectation in this country that if you are violating a network, you are going to get hammered.

As long as you can keep the voluntary compliance and working relationship on a basis of trust and value, we are not looking at hard regs mandated by the Federal Government.

One of the assumptions that has changed during my lifetime as a citizen of this country is the assumption in government that people are going to do something wrong rather than they are going to do something right.

the only way you are going to get it implemented is have some teeth in it, and the only organization that has teeth right now is OMB.

I thank Senator Blunt. I did not get to hear all of Senator Inhofe's comments, but as an Oklahoman I think we couldn't have a finer company or a finer corporate citizen than the Green family, in terms of their chains of stores around the…

It is ironic that we can, as a Congress, sit and tell people, here are the rules, and we cannot even manage our own backyard in terms of data breaches.

Had we started out CFATS with the framework that said we are going to bring all the industry together and say how do we best solve this problem--that is not what we did with CFATS.

We do not trust them to do what is best for the country as a whole, and we think they are always self-centered.

But it is important that we get a bill that causes people to buy into what we need to do on a timely basis.

I would note, this is the fourth hearing on data breach in the Senate this year.

We ought to be setting a good example on our own cyber within the government.