Political Quotes

“Before he leaves the floor, I want to commend my colleague from Nevada. I strongly support his amendment. Amendment No. 2621, as Modified Colleagues, the first vote we will have at 11 o'clock is on my amendment No. 2621. This amendment is supported by a wide variety of leaders across the political spectrum, progressive voices that have focused on cyber security and privacy as well as conservative organizations. FreedomWorks, for example, an important conservative organization, announced last night that they will consider the privacy amendment that I will be offering. It will be the first vote, a key vote on their congressional scorecard. It was the view of FreedomWorks that this amendment, the first vote, would add crucial privacy protections to this legislation. The point of the first amendment we will vote on is to strengthen privacy protections by requiring that companies make reasonable efforts to remove unrelated personal information about their customers before providing data to the government. It says that companies should take these efforts to the extent feasible. Let me say that this truly offers a great deal of flexibility and discretion to companies. It certainly does not demand perfection, but it does say to these companies that they should actually have to take some real responsibility, some affirmative step.…”