"Whether it is Facebook or any other company, there has to be a willingness on the part of this Congress to step up and provide policy protection to the privacy rights of every American consumer."
"We've called you here today for two reasons: One is to examine alarming reports regarding breaches of trust between your company--one of the biggest and most powerful in the world--and its users."
"While Facebook has certainly grown, I worry it may not have matured."
"Your success story is an American success story, embodying our shared values of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of enterprise."
"Does Congress need to clarify whether or not consumers own or have any real power over their online data?"
"The incident involving Cambridge Analytica and the compromised personal information of approximately 87 million American users--or mostly American users--is deeply disturbing to this committee."
"I think we need an answer to that. I think we need to get these off as soon as possible."
"We look forward to continuing our work with them to get a robust bipartisan package of proposals to the White House for signature of the President in the coming months."
"This committee has already been instrumental in working in a bipartisan manner to devote a record--let me underscore record--amount of Federal resources toward the opioid epidemic."
"We can and must advance opioid legislation in a bipartisan manner that the American people deserve."
"We must continue to push forward. And I would respectfully ask everyone involved, stakeholders and Members of Congress alike, to push beyond our comfort zones and think creatively and boldly about how..."