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next, hearing examines race ways to prevent identity theft by social security numbers. held by two house subcommittees, this is one hour and a half. good afternoon and welcome to today s hearing on the federal governments use of social security numbers. unfortunately, chairman sam johnson was unable to be here with us today to discuss one of his favorite topics, ending the unnecessary use of social security numbers. i know everyone here joins me in wishing chairman johnson a speedy recovery. i would like to welcome chairman heard of the oversight and government reform committees, i.t. subcommittee at all of the i.t. subcommittee members joining us in ways and means committee hearing room today. back in 1936 when social security began issuing salsa skidding numbers, they were only used to track earnings and administer the social security program. back then it wasn t much thought about keeping your number a secret, but today social security numbers are the key to the king
i know everyone here joins me in wishing chairman johnson a speedy recovery. chairmanike to welcome heard of the oversight and government reform committee s, i.t. subcommittees and all of the i.t. subcommittee members who are joining us and the ways and means committee hearing room today. 1936 when social security began issuing social security numbers, they were only used to administer the social security program. how important it is to protect their numbers. areal security numbers invaluable target for identity theft because of the regularly use by the federal government and private sector as a unique identifier. especially by the financial industry. time and again, we are reminded to protect our social security cards in order to avoid identity theft and to be careful with what documents we throw away in the trash. our social security numbers are connected to so many personal aspects of our lives from our social security benefits and finances to our medical histories and o
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but this rough weather is starting to have an impact on the great american economy and steve liesman has some really great and interesting stats and facts for us. we are talking about the impact, everything from jobs to stocks as a result of the weather. i m bill griffith in for tyler. great to be back on power lunch. sue is ready to go with several big market stories. it s great to have you with me today. you mentioned the big nasdaq spike. the big caps and small caps are also making some very big moves today. you see the drop and the pop for the s&p midcap index. a similar pattern for the small caps. you ll see that in the russell. you can see it right there, as a matter of fact. down .75%. year-to-date the russell is down 6%. the midcaps down 5%. perhaps we shouldn t be surprised given the gains we saw last year. seema mody is live in times square to put some perspective on all of that today. good afternoon. the nasdaq on track for its worst week since june of 2012,