Jay Rockefeller

For me, the touchstone will always be whether the Committee's STELA reauthorization legislation advances the public interest.

Let me be clear: I believe that we would do customers a disservice if we failed to reauthorize STELA.

I thank you and apologize to everybody else for interrupting in this way but I have to go do some intelligence reading for a very important vote tomorrow.

The FTC supports Federal legislation such as S. 1976 that would strengthen its existing authority governing data security standards on companies.

This legislation would strengthen the Justice Department's ability to combat crime and ensure individual privacy--while bringing cybercriminals to justice.

Today, I'm calling on Congress to create a strong, national standard for quickly alerting consumers whose information may be compromised.

It was very interesting when the President called, accurately, Russia an important regional power.

If you don't take responsibility for your future, you have no future.

If you want good infrastructure, you have to pay for it.

If you have an objective that you want--you want to build roads and bridges--then you do that thing which is necessary to make it happen.

If you said, Senator Rockefeller, are you for raising the gas tax, I would say yes.

We need to move on cybersecurity legislation, that we need to move on some of the notification bills and the work that Senator Rockefeller is doing, Senator Leahy is doing.

We did something called the nuclear option, which means if you can get past cloture, then all you need is 51 votes.

I am just as disappointed by Congress and our failure to create Federal standards for protecting consumer information.

Target must be a clarion call to businesses, both large and small, that it is time to invest in some changes.

Because what, in fact, everybody was fearing about the NSA, which has never come to be true, has come to be true about the American private sector.

I wish to speak about the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. I am joined on the floor today by my friend Senator Baucus, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, to stress the program's importance. Today CHIP provides health…

Ultimately the decision rests with Congress and this Senator absolutely opposes contracting out this inherently core governmental function.

I think going down this path will threaten, not strengthen, our ability to protect this country and the American people from a terrorist attack and massive invasions of their privacy.

The hard fact is that our national security interests do not change just because public opinion on issues fluctuates.

One of the things I talked about in my statement was preventing accidents involving piloted and unpiloted aircraft.

As part of the 2012 FAA Reauthorization bill, the FAA was also required to continue your work towards a final rule for UAS under 55 lbs.

We should not allow armed drones in the United States, period.

I believe we should take very seriously and move on with steps to protect the privacy and safety of our fellow citizens.

We need strong privacy protections for Government use early on.