[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        OBAMACARE DATA SECURITY

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, last week, more than 80 million Americans 
lost personal information when health insurer Anthem was hacked. Almost 
immediately, Anthem customers started to receive suspicious email 
messages trying to con them.
  Anthem, Target, Home Depot, Sony--the list goes on and on of major 
hacks in the last year. In many of these cases, those who had their 
information stolen did not receive notice of the compromise promptly--
the best way for them to protect themselves.
  Because of ObamaCare, Federal and State governments now host a 
massive trove of private information. In hearing after hearing last 
year, we heard about the vulnerabilities of these systems.
  In order to protect consumers, the House passed my Health Exchange 
Security and Transparency Act, which would require the government to 
inform consumers of a breach within 2 days. This bill passed with an 
overwhelming veto-proof majority but went nowhere in Harry Reid's 
Senate.
  I have now reintroduced this bill, a commonsense measure to protect 
consumers if ObamaCare is the next major target for hackers. Maybe this 
year the Senate will act.

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