Political Quotes

“all of us share in the loss of Cardinal O'Connor, even though we are not from New York. Mr. Speaker, last evening, the House of Representatives was spammed. Spam is unsolicited e-mail that can be sent in such a large volume that it disables the recipient's network. I am sure my colleagues have read recent news reports of companies like e-Bay and Amazon.com having their networks taken down by coordinated e-mail attacks. This is a growing problem that Congress needs to quickly address. I have introduced H.R. 3113, along with the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Mrs. Wilson), that will provide consumers and businesses protection against these types of attacks. Mr. Speaker, many of the messages the House received last night simply were titled ``I love you.'' And I know that all of us in the House and our staff enjoy looking at our computers in the morning and seeing ``I love you.'' Apart from the interesting title, there is nothing friendly in this message. If we opened this e-mail, our computer would be infected by a virus that we would then have to spend considerable time and effort removing from our network.”