The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , april 23 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable rob woodall to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Bane he shall, speaker of the house of representatives. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend ribble, dunmar pennsylvania. The chaplain we come today knowing that you are worthy of all worship. We declare that you are the creator and sustainer of all things and the one who provides the means of forgiveness of mankind. We, your created beings are your stewards. Father, we thank you that you allow us to live into a nation that is able to worship you. Give them the ability to discern the times in which we see and to see the consequences of their actions. Guide them in making decisions that is best. Bring new spiritua
And i started there. I start i thought i would start by following up what senator hatch talked about, which is new technology that i understand has been adopted in europe. Is that true . Yes. And is it true that in great britain, they have seen a major decrease in these kind of breach as . They have seen a decrease a decrease. They have also seen a shift to the online channel. What is stopping our country when they are doing this in europe . I think they started using this kind of technology back in 2003. What has stopped it from being rolled out on a major basis, and how can we change that . You know, there are many participants in the payment card world that will ensure that transactions are processed appropriately in the u. S. We put devices in our stores to read chips. Cardtroduced a target visa with a chip in it, but without broad options there are not brought adoptions, there are not significant advantages for consumers. You mean other retailers . Others having the ability to rea
Was released publicly. Broad public notification, yes. Notified about the malware and spend the next few days containing, disabling and removing the malware. January 10, we started notifying the public and customers directly. To both companies have policies in place on how you would do this consumer notification . We have several crisis communication plans and we enacted them immediately upon finding the crisis. Know, senatoryou leahy has a bill on some of these notification issues. I think some of the issues senator feinstein raised are worth discussing. We also have to realize that smaller retailers will have different situations than bigger retailers. We recently found out that hotel chains are being affected by this and were going to have to put something in place. Senator hatchhy, has asked to make a small statement before i recognize you. Thank you, senator. Came up todayt starts out by saying that u. S. Intelligence agencies will ask the Obama Administration to check the Governm
Must act to pass Data Security and breach notification legislation. The administration has proposed similar legislation. Congress must act again and we must ensure that such legislation makes its way to the president s desk for signature. To that end, im most interested to hear any opinions of the f. T. C. And what they may wish to share to us. All my questions this morning will be addressed to chairman ramirez. Now, chairman, in your written testimony, indicates that the commission enforces a variety of statutes such as gramleach bliley and Privacy Protection act. Do any of these acts require an f. T. C. Entity whose collection of personal identification has been breached to notify customers . Yes or no . No. That is needed, i assume . Yes. Absolutely. Now madam chairman, do any of these acts require notification of the federal trade commission or Law Enforcement in general of such a breach, yes or no . No. Madam chairman, should the Congress Enact a federal Data Security and breach n
That fax machine . That did . Dded yes you can. Described that for me. We work with maximus which is a company that covers personal information. They work in medicaid and many states. They are a very big company that has tough policies. They do it in a bunch of states. The final question i have is the number of enrollees. As a part of your measurement of the success of your exchanges, do you have a cost per enrollee . 100ryland has spent. Ision to build the website that right . About 2000 per enrollee . We have enrolled 295,000 people. Years look over several this is how to get coverage. They previously had coverage. The vast majority of them did not. These are people who have gained coverage since january 1. The individual market is getting access to insurance. Isnt it not a fair measurement . They could have had access previously. No. They couldnt. The vast majority of people in maryland like single adults did not have coverage. Ow they have coverage gr single adults did not have med