[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 109 (Thursday, July 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H6586]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          LOOK OUT AMERICA, BIG BROTHER MAY BE WATCHING AGAIN

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, hold on to our floppy disks. The Clinton 
administration, everybody's favorite Big Brother, may soon be following 
our computers' every move.
  According to the New York Times, administration officials are 
contemplating the creation of an extensive computer monitoring system 
overseen by the FBI and the GSA that will have the capability of 
collecting data from computer networks all across this country.
  This news should send a chill up the spine of anybody who has 
followed this administration's actions on privacy issues. Remember, 
these are the folks who want each and every American to have a special 
identification number so that their medical records could be tracked by 
the Federal Government.
  These are the folks who wanted to collect a host of personal 
information about the millions of Americans who receive in-home care 
from Medicare. These are the folks who wanted to give the FBI the 
authority to wire tap one out of every 100 phones in this country.
  So when they start talking about computer security, be wary. Let us 
keep their hands off our e-mail.

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