Marsha Blackburn

We will maintain that ability on Cerner to be able to view those records within the Joint Legacy Viewer, so we will not lose that data.

It's been terrible. But that's something that we're working on.

What we are--what we are going to do is standardize workflows and not allow that to happen.

Absolutely. Absolutely agree.

I think that's one of the reasons why we have such a low grade on FITARA.

Absolutely. We're very excited about that, and I think the more positive incentives like MGT that can put in place where we can reinvest those savings, we're extremely excited, and that will really help us.

I get my primary care at the Washington VAMC, but I get physical therapy through the Veterans Choice Program.

We would like to get down to 14 core data centers by the end of 2020.

Roughly. Roughly. It's multiple hundreds of millions of dollars, way too expensive.

Maintaining our current VistA system is not an option. It will be incredibly costly.

Oh, it affects it drastically.

The whole country. That's the Veterans Choice Program, which has not been perfect.

I am rising today to talk about an issue that women are talking about every single day, and as I am home and out and about in my district, I hear this repeatedly. They will come up to me and they will say: Marsha, I am becoming a security…

Today, we welcome my colleague and dear friend, Ann Wagner, who is leading this charge in the House.

With so many women and children waiting on us and counting on us, doing nothing is not an option.

those who thought that slavery was something that could never happen in 2017 America have had to confront the terrifying reality that not only is it happening, it is on the rise.

we are here to talk about a very ugly, sordid subject, and that is online sex trafficking or, as the name of Ms. Smith's organization describes it more bluntly, slavery.

standing by idly is simply not an option.

I know that you both share my deep sadness and absolute outrage that this is happening in our backyard.

With this hearing, it is my hope that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, with our particular focus, will add some valuable perspective about exactly what is going wrong and what is going right on the tech side as the lowest of…

it is on the rise in large part because the internet, the technological masterpiece of our time, has made it much easier to do.

it is deeply upsetting that these issues exist in today's society, but I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss how we can put an end to this modern day slavery.

One is that we have to find a better balance on privacy moving toward giving the consumer more information and more control over, as I term it, their virtual you, their information that is being collected and used and sometimes distributed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for your testimony. It is so enlightening, and we appreciate it.

We can settle our differences right here with legislative authority in these hearing rooms rather than relinquishing that authority to regulators in power.