mr. halpern, i appreciate you being here today. a long day for all of us, we're all looking forward to getting back in person before too long. i appreciate you being here. maybe in a future hearing we'll get an opportunity to talk to some of your legislative branch colleagues on what is an absolutely critical issue. i can't tell you how often i hear from folks across wisconsin about the importance of data privacy. they're thinking about it, they're thinking about being hacked. there's a timely political article that came out just a little bit ago talking about are reporters being hacked through apps. it is nonstop that this is something we're talking about, and i think it's important that we're talking about it here. the proposed piece of legislation that would mandate gpo action in a the data privacy space, the online privacy act of 2021 that we're talking about, were you consulted in the drafting of the legislation, specifically section v? >> we were not consulted at the front end, although we did have subsequent discussions with

mr. halpern. and madam chair, oil back. >> gentleman yields back. miss scanlon is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. halpern what remedial measures did the gpo have in place in the event that one of its publications contains non public personal information about a private individual. especially if it's sensitive or otherwise potentially harmful nature. >> absolutely. as i mentioned, we have both automated and manual systems to redact information that is found in our digital collection. so, for instance, let's just say for the sake of argument, something slipped through tonight's addition of the congressional record. there was something that had some pii in it and all of our checks failed i. the good news is, when that's brought to our attention, our team can go in, change the record in govinfo, iowa are trusted digital repository. i and redact that information out of the digital record. we can't really fix the printed copies. but the volume of those copies, for something say like the congressional record, is much smaller than it was even a d