Appearances this week before a congressional committee. And he let off a house commerce subcommittee this morning. Good morning. The subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good morning. Today, were here to get the facts, to learn what happened at equifax that led to the personal information of over 143 million americans information being stolen. Americans deserve to know what equifax is doing to fix the problem and help individuals that are impacted. Well find out what happened. The public deserves to know what happened and what steps are being taken to protect their Sensitive Data Going Forward. Todays hearing needs to shed some much needed information and light on this breach. We have received assurances from equifax that mr. Smith can speak for the company on concrete remediation steps that the company took in the aftermath to secure its Computer Systems and protect the