Say that certainty is needed by states to repair the nations infrastructure. We want to return to you turn to all of you and say what are your infrastructure needs. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country dial in 202 7488000. Mountain specific dial 202 7488001. If you want to join the conversation on twitter or go to facebook. Com. You can also send an email. The phone lines are open and we will begin with the Washington Times. The highway funding bill stuck in limbo as the august recess quickly approaches. Kevin mccarthy shut the bill to a sixmonth bill. Saying even if the other changer gets it done chamber gets it done this week it would be impossible for history is to study a thousand page deal before the house leaves thursday night. The majority leader announced that his side are a past a fivemonth road bill and last night they introduced a threemonth extension. Senate negotiators barreled forward anyway saying that congresss reliance on shortterm patches has passed
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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
Services for free. And my constituent james from new york asked why did it take so long to announce the data breach and why shouldnt you be held responsible for every day of failing to report . I think hopefully my written testimony, my oral testimony, and the dialogue we have had today has talked about the timeline in enough granularity to help that person understand what occurred from march through 7th. And a constituent stephanie asked, do they know if the people were targeted or randomly picked . Why some but not others . At this point, all indications are it was at random. It was targeting of individuals specifically. I have exhausted my time, but let me assure you, mr. Smith, i have many,many, many constituents questions that continue to pour forth and were going to provide those after the hearing here. And would expect that they would all be answered, and again, thank you for your response. I yield back. Thank you very much. The gentleman yields back. The chair now recognizes th
Functions on a daytoday basis. Sunday night. On q a. Today on capitol hill, richard smith, the ceo of equifax gave the first of three Straight Days of hearings to address the data breach that exposed the private information of a hundred 45 Million People. The subcommittee hearing runs about three hours. 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 million 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 assurances from equifax that mr. Smith can speak on concrete remediation steps that the company