when they want to engage with cassar because qatar has been very clear they already to engage well mr tillis is due to visit the gulf in the coming days as the state department spokeswoman. we want to see these countries keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention to it recently about the disappointment that the nations haven't been able to do so of the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they well we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet let's go live to our correspondent. in washington d.c. so the secretary of state is there focusing his attention on this g.c.c. crisis what else did he have to say from the from the exit that we we've already mentioned it was quite clear about who he thought was to blame for it. let's try to learn to sing gave this interview martine to

mr. smith: that is correct. senator tillis: did you call it lock for life? mr. smith: yes. senator tillis one thing you mention in your opening comment in response to your public -private partnership, is it true that the three major providers in this field have roughly the same base of consumers? is there a difference in your base? i know you have analytics, but do they roughly have the same base of data they are working from? mr. smith: roughly. senator tillis: the fact of the matter is all three of them could be exposed to a vulnerability, some of which could come through the sort of attacks we saw with other businesses that thought they had secured infrastructures. what is being done to create a lock form in even the life strategy, and what did you mean by a possible public-private partnership to harvest access to this data? mr. smith: on the first, i think there is an opportunity. it benefits the consumer. for the three of us in this case, ourselves, trans union, experian, to work together to provide a seamless solution, free, to consumers for life. senator tillis: to si

relations between the two allies have been restrained with mr tillis and in asia to outline presidentith india, pakistan's archrival. we are joined with india, pakistan's archrival. we arejoined by the with india, pakistan's archrival. we are joined by the former ambassador to be us the pakistan hussain haqqanl to be us the pakistan hussain haqqani. 0n the issue of the new approach, many americans would say the relationship with pakistan over the relationship with pakistan over the last two years, the us hasn't had a very good deal and maybe it is time for a new approach, to be tougher, cut that work?|j time for a new approach, to be tougher, cut that work? i think toughness might work whether previous policy has failed and pakistan has continued to support the caliban was saying we do not. at times saying yes we do but also having concerns about india so the consensus in dc is to get tough on pakistan. how they will be do it remains to be seen because right now, secretary of state tillis's america for our stay in pakistan is not going to be enough to change something that has gone do

mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate again the opportunity to speak today. like last week, i didn't plan on speaking on this subject so my staff were probably once again wondering what the boss was going to say. i was thinking that maybe we can translate a little bit about what we're trying to do here with tax reform. because we talk about tax rates, exemptions, exceptions, simplification, all of this stuff which is important because it gets baked into the bill, but we don't spend a whole lot of time explaining why we're trying to do what we're doing. the last time that we had really meaningful and impactful tax reform was back about 1986. and that's when republicans and democrats came together and decided that the stagnant economy that i grew up in -- i graduated from high school in 1978. i didn't go immediately to college. i moved out of home when i was 17 years old and i was working. it was an economy that's not unlike today. in many respects, maybe a little bit worse. the environment was the same. iran was behaving badly. russia was behaving badly. we ha

mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. while senator enzi is on the floor, i want to thank him for taking us through this very important vote today. i want to talk a little bit, maybe in terms of people can understand what's going on here -- what will be going on over the next few days. what we're doing right now is passing a budget, and our budget's no different than your household budget. when you sit down and figure out over some period of time how much money you have and how much money you need to spend, where maybe you need to spend more and where you need to spend less, that's what we're doing with this budget. this budget is not the tax reform bill. that will come after we pass a budget. but if we don't pass this budget, there's no possible way we can pass tax reform. that's why i support this budget and that's why i'll work to defeat any amendments that will keep from this budget from being passed because then we can have an honest discussion about what we need to do around tax reform. the senate from south carolin

mr. tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. i want to go back and make sure i have the numbers right. there were about 2 1/2 million that appear to be authorized. 8 1/2 million was 65 million accounts open. i think that was about 3 1/2 million unauthorized. >> potentially unauthorized, senator. >> i want to talk more about how you focus on the customer and make this very easy for them to recover for us. i serve on the veterans affairs committee. i got a call from a veteran in north carolina who had -- his wife was opening the mail and mentioned, i didn't know you were dead. he somehow got miscategorized and thought it was deemed dead. thought it was a simple problem. called up the va, the va said, well, you have reams of paperwork and several phone calls you'll need to make to get reinstated and get your veteran's benefits. tell me how in getting this right, minimizing the customer's time, effect on underlying credit reporting agencies being dealt with too. is it my problem to deal with maybe clearing up those accounts that i didn't authorize to equifax or the credit agency. >> we wor

mr. tillis: thank you, madam president. i fully associate myself with the comments just made by the senator from the great state of alaska. we've got to get to work here, but i'm here to talk about one of the most pressing issues we have to deal with. yesterday we had lunch where the president spoke about why tax reform is so critical for healing the economy and really having our nation rise to its full capabilities in terms of economic performance and global competitiveness. you read the headlines. the headlines read like republicans are for the big guy, for the corporations, not for the little guy. you hear them talk about policies that will have us drowning in red ink. you'll hear them talk about unsustainable economic policies. i saw all those headlines before about six years ago in the north carolina state house. when we inherited a disaster for an economy. it was after the 2008 crisis. we had a state that was drowning in red ink. $2.5 billion structural deficit. we had a tax code that was absolutely out of sync with o

mr. sloan. >> thank you, senator tillis. senator leahy. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm glad the other committees are also looking at this. it's been extremely troublesome. it's almost your company, mr. smith, i want to state it as much in favor of you as i can. it showed gross negligence and total disregard of its customers and more regard for protecting its own people and its profits even having a couple of your executive cash in stock once the breach had been disclosed before it was disclosed to the public. it's hard to think of such an arrogant disregard to the people that put trust in you. and also -- but i think it may sound like a personal charge against you. i'll let you take it any way you want. but i think it shows something else. there's very little incentive for a company to protect their consumers unless something's gone wrong. and then it's as much -- you did one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward, one step back kind of reaction. it was took more like a pr effort than an effort to protect the customers. i've previously introduced legislatio

senator tillis: thank you, mr. chair. mr. dougherty i want to go back to the line of questions that senator kennedy had. i know you can't get inside the president's head, but that's one of the benefits of social media and tweets. i want to go back and take a look at a litany of communications. i know on september 5, the president appropriately did a resist of the daca -- rescission of the daca executive action under the obama administration. i think that it was failed and it was legally flawed. it was likely to be overturned. and the president took appropriate action. i happen to support treatment for daca population here. i want to get to that if i have time. on the day of the rescission at 9:01 a.m., the president said congress now has six months to legalize daca. congress now has six months to legalize daca. something the obama administration was unable to do. if they can't, i will revisit the issue. it sounds like he's got passion around getting daca right. he goes on to say congress, get ready to do your job, daca. that

mr. chairman. .> sen. tillis: senator tillis: congress has never seen a legitimate problem and needs to be dealt with as an opportunity to overreact. one of the things i'm concerned with is we have this discussion, i was or wasn't things simple and then maybe i can build on things to the extent time allows. when we had the equifax ceo in here, i tried asking the question of the lock for life versus delete. , we are you on the option of the consumer being presence ofte any their existence in any of the big three credit reporting agencies. do you think that is something they should be entitled to do? mr. rotenberg: they do. this company -- this country along this three of expungement of financial records to give people the option to start over even after bankruptcy. we already recognize that people should begin the opportunity to reapply for credit, even after they've had this type of experiences. is a deletellis: it and later they were seeking credit and they had no reliable sources for showing credit worthiness,

mr. chair. >> senator tillis, are you on the way out the door? you have five minutes. i want to ask you a favor, i have to leave, and senator tester has questions he wants to ask and i don't want to cut him off. i have one i want to be sure is for the record. you adopt the same software being used by dod. that's a huge step forward. does that merger also allow you access to the same information dod has regarding the wounded warrian transition units? >> yes. >> our warriors when they leave the battlefield or leave deployment in battlefield areas, they're asked questions on the computer, answer by computer. it doesn't have a statement. they're answering a computer question. there are questions that give indicators of where there may be somebody at risk for suicide. so you have interoperable software one day soon. we'll also have interoperability access to that information. >> there is certainly some exceptions with dod. one of the things i just learned recently, i don't know if you know this, the coast guard doesn't have -- wasn't in their contract, so we're going to hav

tillis? >> why you're such a good chair, mr. chair. i was going to end with a capital project, but let me go to that because i think this is critically important. i believe the president has a real commitment to veterans and accelerating some things and frankly didn't move as quickly as i would have liked for them to have in the past couple of years. but i have the same view in my role in senate armed services. we're always going to have fewer resources than you want. >> right. >> and shame on any member of congress who advocates for moving something up ahead of line where the data doesn't say it's the best way to provide care to the communities that need it. i'm in north carolina. i'm in a 50% urban, 50% rural state with over 1 million veterans. 10% of my population. if you told me montana is where the resources need to go to serve that population, that's where i want it to go. along with that, when you're taking a look at optimizing capital projects, shame on any member who tries to come up with a statutory protection for something t

to announcing a decision that was a decision he was not entitled to announce. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. attorney general sessions, thank you for being here. i think you know -- >> and you're watching attorney general jeff sessions on capitol hill being questioned by members of the senate judiciary committee, and you just heard an exchange with senator chris coons. i want to bring if matt miller, who is chief justice analyst and of course eric hague who is in capitol hill. matt, let me just pick up with you on this exchange we just witnessed. you heard senator coons press sessions on the fact that he recused himself from the russia probe. so, therefore, why did he write a letter recommending that president trump fire the former fbi director james comey? and sessions said, look, as the attorney general, he doesn't recuse himself from overseeing the fbi. what did you make of that exchange which struck me as very critical. it's something that's been discussed since that moment, really. >> sessions is in a box on this recusal issue. the statement is on the clinton investigation. sess

tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> the attorney general jeff sessions in that exchange right there with senator chris coons fascinating exchange. this part of the democratic questioning a broad democratic effort to undermine the attorney general's credibility, his conduct in office, some of the decisions he made with senator coons it was his decision to be involved in the firing of james comey even though as the attorney general he had said he was recused from anything involved with the russia investigation because of his role in the trump campaign with any decisions about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation because he thought that was proper. yet, he participated in the firing recommended the firing of the fbi director who was in charge of the clinton investigation and in charge of the russia investigation, the attorney general making the case it wasn't about the merits of either case, it was about his performance. democrats think that is a distinction without a difference. >> what we're showing is ther

tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair, mr. sloan thank you for being here. the third party assessed 90 out of 93 million open you look back 2 1/2 million appeared to be unauthorized and eight year back, 165 million accounts opened and i think that was about thee and a half million unauthorized. potentially unauthorized, senator. >> i've got to go back. i want to talk more about how you focus on the customer and make this very easy for them to recover from. i served on the veterans affair committee and i got a call from veteran in north carolina. the wife was opening the mail and honey, i don't know that you were dead. and the va sent a notice he was somehow discategorized that he was dead. he had a military car. va said there are reames of paper work and phone calls you'll need to make to get reinstated and get your veterans benefits. now, tell me how in making this right that i'm know the getting on a phone, listening to elevator music, getting transferred to several different accounts, in other words, how are you maximizing minimizing the customer's time i

mr. chairman, we've got to change this industry before more people are injured. thank you. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. mr. smith, thank you for being here. i have one question that i want to get to. first, can you explain to me why you believe in the strategy of the lock versus the delete option is in the best interest of the consumer. >> senator, i think we provide a very valuable service to the consumer, allowing he or she to get access to credit when they want access to credit. if they are not in the system, they hinder their ability to get credit. >> how do you think that would -- let's say that you had a delete option so there wasn't a transactional opportunity for the consumer to have that information available to people who are maybe underwriting a loan. say if you took that to a logical conclusion and had all three of the information providers delete your financial records, how do you think that would affect somebody who's trying to apply for a mortgage or loan or credit card? >> we know what would happen. if you're not in the credit ecosystem, you don't get a loan. >

tillis. >> thank you mr. chairman, gentlemen, thank you for being here, one question, when you have something like the breach at equifax, congress has never seen a legitimate problem that needs to be dealt with, an opportunity to overreact. and so one of the things that i'm concerned with, is when we have this discussion, i want to start with something simple and then maybe i can build on things to the extent time allows, when we had the equifax ceo in here, i tried to ask him the question of the lock, they're calling it lock for life, versus delete. mr. rottenberg, where are you on the option of the consumer being able to delete any presence for their existence in any of the big three credit reporting agencies, do you think that's something they should be entitled to do? >> i do, senator, in fact this country has a long history of expungement of their financial records to give consumers the opportunity to start over even after bankruptcy. so we recognize that people should be given the opportunity to reapply

mr. chairman. thank you, senator durbin, as well for your long time leadership in this area. and thank you senator tillis on trying to work with us on a solution. the issue was raised on criminality. and i have a staff that 97% of the 800,000 plus daca kids are in school or working. do you have any reason to dispute that statistic, any of you? no, okay. and the issue was raised about crime. like for me right now the only crime i'm thinking about is the shooting yesterday, and would it surprise you we don't have the stats on daca kids who are at the concert or who were first responders. but i've certainly seen on tv they're giving the immigrant population in nev, that there were first responders who are immigrants. would that surprise you at all? and the person that perpetrated this carnage was not an immigrant, he was caucasian, is that right? okay, i just want to put this in perspective. so my question is i was disappointed to learn that a justice department attorney stated that the department of homeland security does not plan to extend the october 5th deadline in hearing in federal court last week. is

mr. comey. it was not based on the merits of the investigation. it was based on his performance, publicly and in regard to announcing a decision he was not entitled to announce. >> sen. tillis. >> thank you. i hope you know i've been a strong supporter of yours. timeframe,e summer i thought the present was wavering his support for you, i had the confidence in you. i will continue to. the good news is -- i preside at once. i cannot go over if i wanted to. nominee a division before us. thean drill on it during confirmation. your office responded to a you thatat we sent to the program is effectively over. when you go out and talk to businesses and depository institutions, they are still concerned with what is going on out there with examiners and people out in the various -- and the various precatory agencies of knock on the memo. i would appreciate any effort the doj can do to communicate to these lower-level bureaucrats, who think they will transcend us and we'll begin this program at some point. if they do it now and if we can find out they are doing it, i hope it means it comes at the cost of their jobs. i do not want to talk about it now. i want to talk about a subject. i

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