It was mr. Smiths third such questioning in a weeks time. And most of the subcommittees inquiries focused on the speed of the Credit Reporting agencys response to the knowledge its data servicers had been infiltrated by nefarious forces. This is about an hour and 40 minutes. Jo this hearing of the subcommittee on privacy, technology, and law, will come to order. Were here to examine per sis sent cybersecurity concerns in the data broker industry. This is not the first time our subcommittee has gathered to do so after a cybersecurity breach last august, we held a hearing to ask the question how secure is consumers data in the hands of data brokers. The answer, not very secure. The industry immediately responded by committing to take serious Security Issues and pledging to dedicate resources toward Data Protection measures. Yet here we are two years later in the wake of what we now know as the largest breach of private consumer data. Were trying to figure out how it happened once again.
Distinguished cochairman, senator wyden for his opening remarks. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. In early august, the finance committee released the final report on the bipartisan inquiry we undertook to examine the irs processing of applications for tax exempt status. Our investigation looked back at the period between 2010 and 2013. The committee reviewed 1. 5 million pages of emails and documents and conducted interviews with more than 30 irs officials. The finance Committee Inquiry colleagues was the only bipartisan inquiry on either side of capitol hill. What we found on a bipartisan basis was alarming bureaucratic dysfunction. Many applicants for tax exempt status were treated badly. For example, between 2010 and late 2011 a total of 290 applications for tax exempt status had been set aside for review. Only two applications had been resolved successfully. Not 200. Two. That was unacceptable mismanagement. The investigation, however, did not find any evidence of criminal wrongd
That goes overseas to bring their product back here, not trading with a country, im talking about our own people getting their jobs where they can, where its cheap and sends it back here and sells it for as much as they can get. Put a tax on those people and they would bring their jobs back here because it wouldnt be worth going over there to begin with. Lets take that idea. Congressman . I think we have to be careful about this, a lot of the companies in my state and district that have facilities overseas often put facilities in those countries to support that market. Just by the same token we have many foreign headquartered companies that have major presences in the United States. Theyre selling products here in the United States. Theres Foreign Investment in the United States employing a lot of americans and those americans and theyre servicing local markets. By the same token, ill use one company, air products and chemicals in my district, they build Industrial Gas plants and they
Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug overdoses. So, this crisis is taking lives. Its destroying families. Its shattering communities all across the country. Thats the thing about Substance Abuse. I doesnt discriminate. It touches everybody. From celebrities to College Students to soccer moms to inner city kids. White, black, hispanic, young, old, rich, poor. Urban, suburban, men and women. It can happen to a coal miner, a construction worker. A cop, whos taken a painkiller for a work related injury. It could happen to the doctor who
Forward. They are not citizens and they dont get to vote. And they have to work somewhere where we want them to work. And its important to recognize that some of the industries in this country very much depend on that labor. And they would collapse almost immediately without it. But it can only be done by people who are here in a legal manner. And it is not an Amnesty Program because it does not make people citizens. It does not give people the vote. When you hear people saying carson wants amnesty, thats not true. What carson wants is practicality. Things that actually work for us. And were also reasonable people. One of the things that i think is very important in terms of our Foreign Policy is not to be giving billions of dollars to other people in foreign aid which we borrow from china and pay the interest and give it to somebody else. That doesnt make any sense. But we should be supplying foreign aid. Like in cameroon right now, American Companies over there helping to develop mil