the first statement will be made by mort rose enburg and followed by doug comic and walter delenger and after the formal presentations i'll give the panel an opportunity to question one another and i'm sure we will see a spirited debate at that point. then we will go to the audience, so keep track of things you do not think were covered and we will try to address those. many thanks for being here. i hope punish find the package as i think you will, info informative, let me start with a introduction for mort, i have to finds the paper and then i'll sit down. what i want to say about mort is he is an expert and has been for a good many years in the appointments issue. he was a member of the congressional research service and he was there during one of the periods when the crs had its most important business dealing with appointments and that was during the watergate period for richard nixon and his opinions, they were nine of them during that period were important in establishing some of the basic ideas for how we look today at the appointments process. he also served as consultant and ge

finally i should add that he was a staffer for senator shumer, mark rode enburg, he chairs the american bar association committee on privacy and information protection, and has edited several privacy law textbooks prior to founding epic that is again, electric privacy information center, he was council to senator leahy where he advised the senator on the act we are considering today. he received his jd from stanford law school. christopher wolfe is the director of the privacy and information practice here in washington. and he also the founder and cochair of the future of privacy forum. he was the editor and lead author of the practicing law institutes first treatis on privacy law and has authored many publications on privacy. he received his jd from washington and lee university and his a.d.from boden college. thank you for all being here today and we will start with mr. heiman. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today to video privacy protection act. my name the david heimann. i have served as the general council of netflix since 2002. a time when streami videing v