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Chairman, thank you. Speaking of cops on the beat, well now go to michael copps, served as acting chairman of the federal Communications Commission from january to june of 2009, and served as commissioner from 2001 to 2011. Prior to joining the commission, commissioner copps worked right here on capitol hill, and the u. S. Department of commerce. Commissioner copps, chairman copps, thank you for being with us, and we look forward to your comments to round out our panel. Thank you chairman walden...

To think that health caring. Gov could be built so quickly and then secured, to me, is very hard to believe. When we have a web site to be reviewed, typically we start at the very beginning before the site is actually developed. We do things as far as audits, we do vulnerability assessments, also pin testing. All three of these things are required to actually look at and examine the site. Pin testings a very important part of this process, because pin testing means were looking at the site the s...

Wealthy, it was structured to make American Society homeowners. And now were in 2013, and its only the wealthy who have access to the conventional market. And we need to be much more aggressive about thinking through one of the appropriate measures to use such that the governments backstop, whether its fannie or freddie or private institutions, actually serve a public purpose which is to build Home Ownership across the income and across the racial spectrum in america. You know, im not as intelli...

Defendant, even though it now appears that faa fisa amendment acts were used in criminal prosecutions. There was a great story about this by Charlie Savage about the fact that the solicitor general, when he argued to the Supreme Court, represented to the court that fisa amendments act requires removal defendants to receive notice when the government is prosecuting them on the basis of evidence derived from the fisa amendments act. It turns out not to have been the Justice Departments policy. The...

And i started there. I start i thought i would start by following up what senator hatch talked about, which is new technology that i understand has been adopted in europe. Is that true . Yes. And is it true that in great britain, they have seen a major decrease in these kind of breach as . They have seen a decrease a decrease. They have also seen a shift to the online channel. What is stopping our country when they are doing this in europe . I think they started using this kind of technology bac...

Gentleman from kentucky for a minute and a half. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for main and a half. Mr. Rogers i thank the gentleman for the time. This is a bipartisan bill, and i hope every member in this house will be happy to support it. Im glad to see at the very least the senate has plans to take up this bill, stop the presses, the senate is going to take up a bill even if they wont consider most of our other bills. As we wait for the senate to come to th...

Richard carmona will give an update on the latest research to improve survival rates from ieds and mass shooting incidents. We will also take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Journal, live each morning at seven eastern on cspan. An executive from target said the company is investing 100 million to upgrade to a more advanced credit card system following the hacking of customer data. Testifying before a senate committee, the target cfo was asked about the...

Im pleased to cochair this hearing on the present and future impact of Virtual Currency. My friend senator merkel and i appreciate the work senator heller has done and senator kirk will be joining us as well. Were going to do this a little different because its a joint subcommittee hearing i will chair the first panel and the senator will chair the second. The uses of Virtual Currencies have proliferated in recent years. My hope for this hearing is to educate the Senate Members and others and st...

That store data. You think this precludes the need for a federal dado security . No, i dont. We have used our authority under section five of the ftc act. We think we have used it effectively. In particular, we think there are three areas we could issue authority. We would like to see legislation that would give the fcc civil penalty authorities. That will enable us to deter more effectively. We also believe that we need jurisdiction over nonprofits. We found that a number of breaches occur at n...