As Members of Congress, we have no greater responsibility than responding to the needs of our constituents.

Thanks to the committee chair and ranking member for holding this hearing and particularly to all of the members relating to the action our committee has taken to fully fund the provisions of CARA that are the Jason Simcakoski Memorial and…

Now, certainly in terms of gaps that have been identified in the Veterans Choice program and other community care programs, we can't necessarily take all of those components that I view as critical...

So we all know that the Equifax breach compromised the personal and financial information of more than 145 million Americans.

This is totally inappropriate, and yet the report does not even mention Mr. Kelley, and he still works for Equifax.

Equifax is now offering free credit report locking for life, but only offering credit report monitoring through January 31, 2018.

I think it's clear that Equifax needs to do a lot more than it has to help victims respond to this breach.

Equifax set up a poorly functioning process where people would have to go to the Equifax website to find out if they were impacted.

Victims of this breach will really need to be able to control access to the reports from all three credit agencies to fully protect themselves.

Thank you for all the more bringing this to the forefront.

Last year I worked with my colleague, Senator Hatch, to advance the development of a national structure for all health IT exchange networks to share at the basic level patient information with each other.

I'm encouraged that we're continuing to focus on bipartisan work that can improve health care through the interoperability of electronic health records.