[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 24913-24914]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



          ASKING HOUSE TO REJECT COMMERCE, STATE, JUSTICE BILL

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, Amy Boyer, a 21-year-old young woman was 
killed by a stalker, a stalker who paid $45 in order to purchase her 
Social Security number so that she could be tracked down and killed.
  Her murderer actually on his Web site in graphic detail outlined how 
the Social Security number was the key to finding out where she was. 
The House was passing on a bipartisan bill, a protection against the 
misuse of Social Security numbers; instead, in the Commerce State 
Justice bill, we are going to recede to the Senate language, which The 
Washington Post yesterday called a trojan horse, which the Boyer family 
says they do not want as protections.

[[Page 24914]]

  They do not want their name identified with the bill, even though it 
is named after their daughter. I ask the House to reject the Commerce, 
State, Justice bill that would include a Social Security bill that 
would allow just about complete trafficking in Social Security numbers 
without any real protections for ordinary Americans.

                          ____________________