[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 151 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DOGE

  (Mr. Larson of Connecticut was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to 
discuss something that should alarm every American citizen.
  Mr. Speaker, as you know, DOGE or so-called DOGE employees, have been 
rummaging through people's individual Social Security records.
  For the general public's awareness, DOGE is the so-called Department 
of Government Efficiency, initially led by Elon Musk until there was a 
breakup of the bromance between he and President Trump, but DOGE still 
persists.
  Mr. Speaker, as you know--and it has to be as much a concern to you 
as it is to me--having more than 127,000 Social Security recipients in 
your district whose information is private and secure, is being 
rummaged through by twentysomethings who have no accountability, have 
never been vetted, and who will not come before Congress.
  I asked Chairman Estes last week in our subcommittee meeting to bring 
DOGE forward to please tell us what they are doing rummaging through 
everyone's personal data and information.
  Ranking Member Neal and I are going to introduce a resolution of 
inquiry to bring DOGE before Congress. Every Member, Republican and 
Democrat, should be concerned about this. Every American citizen should 
be aware that DOGE has taken all of that information and stored it in a 
cloud, a/k/a another site that is vulnerable, that anyone can hack 
into, and that the Social Security Administration has no access to. No 
one is allowed to look at that data who hasn't been vetted, as was 
testified before the Ways and Means Committee last week.
  How is it that DOGE employees are exempt because they are above the 
law? It requires the United States Congress to call them in front of 
us. If they are doing such a great job with efficiency, and if that was 
their goal, clearly they ought to be able to come before Congress and 
testify as to what they have found.
  Mr. Speaker, I think every American should be aware that what is 
really going on here is an attempt to get at your data and your 
information and to further attempt to privatize Social Security. That 
is the end goal.
  When you look at the layoffs that have occurred at the Social 
Security Administration, when you look at what has happened to the 
regional offices, when you look at the basic phone service and the 
inability of people to contact and speak with a human being, it should 
astound and awaken every single American.

  I hope that all Americans who may be listening to this or people in 
the audience who may be listening to this take to heart what is 
happening with their personal data and information.
  Why should anyone, let alone unvetted, unaccountable DOGE people, go 
through your personal records? Why do they need that information? What 
does that have to do with government efficiency, and why did they steal 
them and put them in an unsecure cloud that anyone could hack from the 
outside?
  This is an abomination, and it needs to be corrected. It can very 
easily be corrected by the legislation that we have introduced calling 
to make sure that DOGE comes before Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans need to stand up and call them to come 
before us.

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