Political Quotes

“So we have had an intense interest since the report ``Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens'' was produced in 1973. HHS is chiefly responsible for why the United States became the first Nation in the world to draft a Federal privacy law. They know what to do. They developed the Code of Fair Information practices which have five principles, one of which says there must be no personal data recordkeeping systems whose very existence is secret, that is, to not use the data of people in the wrong way. There is the CMS Policy for Privacy Act, and I offer this for the Record. The baseline of my point is that HHS was at the core of developing privacy. There have been no known breaches. There is no bar for CMS and HHS to tell the American public or the individual immediately. This bill will add burdensome requirements and may--it may--distract or take away from legal and lawful law enforcement investigations. I ask that we look at this together in a bipartisan manner. I believe in privacy. I hope we can work together, Mr. Pallone, and make this what it should be; but I think the American people are protected. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on H.R. 3811, the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act of 2014. I would like to commend the author of the bill for the focus on privacy. Privacy protection is a policy area that has strong bi-partisan agreement. However, because H.R.…”