B. 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 we are here to get the facts to learn what happened at equifax that led to the personal information of over 143. Americans information being stolen. We must 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 ashursurances m equifax that mr. Smith can speak on concrete remediation steps that the company took in the aftermath to secure its Computer Systems and protect the affected u. S. Customers as well as what happened when he was chief executive. As chairman of the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection subcommittee i often speak about the fact that we live in a digitally connected world. That fact of
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Elections. At stake today, control of the senate. Republicans have their best chance of winning back the majority since they lost it in 2006. Democrats hold a majority and could lose control of the chamber if they drop six seats. The other big story for today, a true test of the tea party. Mainstream gop fighting back and launching a strong counteroffensive. Our Political Team is covering all the angles. Lets start with dana bash covering todays headline mashup in kentucky, its an exciting one, dana. Reporter right, because Mitch Mcconnell, Senate Republican leader, is fighting a twofront war. Today is primary day, as you said. He is expected to beat out and best his republican challenger, the one from the right, and his focus has already been on the real challenge he thinks he has, which is november. His democratic opponent. And the way he is describing it and laying it out for voters here is very interesting, because its along the lines of what you just laid out. The whole battle for
0 this is part of the lively debate that we talked about. this is good. i have to say, we actually arranged for that, because it made me feel at home. you know, i i wouldn t feel comfortable if i didn t have at least one heckler. the president then proceeded to deliver a speech that surely would have gotten him booed and heckled by many self-proclaimed friends of israel in the united states, if he had given that speech in the united states, where pretending to speak for the people of israel, and pretending to defend their interests is a common past time of republican politicians who attacked this president s choice for secretary of defense as somehow being an enemy of israel. it is a common past time for fox news commentators and other right wing pundits. they would have shouted down this president for saying what he was about to say, and they would have claimed that their shouting was all in defense and support of the people of israel. the president chose today to speak directly
more demonstrations are scheduled for this afternoon. brewer in a tough primary race says washington left her no choice. decades of federal inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation. just hours before brewer signed the bill into law, the president jumped in. our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. immigration reform is a politically perilous issue for republicans divided on what to do and politically potent for democrats under pressure from hispanic-americans to deal with the issue as the president promised in his campaign. moving immigration up on the democrats a chance to play kate a part of their base. all of which makes republicans suspicious. senator jeff sessions asked, are they raising the idea of comprehensive reform now because they believe the majority of americans truly want it or because it serves a specific political purpose in a tough election year?