Sean Duffy: “I appreciate all the work that Chairman Kline and Ranking Member Miller have put into this bill. My amendment today has…”

“I appreciate all the work that Chairman Kline and Ranking Member Miller have put into this bill. My amendment today has to do with the issue of privacy. Listen, technology has been a great thing for America. It has allowed better communication and connectivity amongst our friends and our family members. With email, cell phones, text, and pictures, we are able to share very intimate parts of our lives with those who are closest to us, but it is not always used with the purest of hearts. Many Americans, including many young Americans, have been concerned about the data collection that comes from the NSA about Americans' emails, texts, and phone records. We have just learned recently about the information that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is collecting on the American citizenry. They are collecting information on nearly 600 to 800 million credit cards in America. They are also teaming up with FHFA to form a database that collects information on Americans about their race, their religion, their sex, their payment history, their credit scores, the number of children that they have, their date of birth, their Social Security number. They have access to all of this information, and I think most Americans would say that is too much information for the government to have. It just doesn't happen in government though. It also happens in the private sector, without Americans' permission or consent.…”