mrs. blackburn. the chair: the gentlelady from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in support of the bill because this is the right step, it's a right time. and if you're listening to the american people, one of the things they have said loud and clear is, they do not want the obamacare bill on the flooks. they want this repealed. when my colleagues say how many times do we have to revisit this issue? mr. chairman, we are going to keep revisitting this issue until we get every single piece of this bill off the books. because it is too expensive to afford. now a great example of this is exactly what we are dealing with . a little slice of it that gives as much as may be needed, as much may be consumed, as much as the h.h.s. secretary says they will need for this unlimited slush fund to give money to the states for these grants. now, i will remind my colleagues from across the aisle, our former democrat governor has called this program the mother of all unfunded mandates. mr. chairman, there is a reason that he called this program such. because he knows that pu

mrs. blackburn: and i thank the chairman for the time. i thank the gentleman from kentucky for his leadership on this bill. you know, mr. chairman, it's so interesting to me, we had a 2,7 hundred-page health care bill that basically was a government takeover of health care. what we have heard from so many people in this country is gosh, i wish somebody would have read that bill before they passed it and the former speaker said we need to pass the bill and then we can read it and find out what's in it. one of the things that many of the people did not like that was in that bill was was many of the mandatory provisions put in place, programs that had been on the books for years that all of a sudden became mandatory. and the confusing thing, mr. chairman, is there didn't seem to be any consistency. as the subcommittee chairman who spoke before me had said, mr. pitts had said, you know, you don't tend to -- children's hospitals in the same way, you don't tend to nurses in the same way. there is this discretionary for teaching hospitals, a tot

mrs. blackburn for five minutes. >> thank you. thank you all for being here. appreciate that we're having the hearing today. i think one the things we can all agree on is that giving consumers the tool that is are necessary to protect their virtual you if you will, their virtual online presence is going to be an imperative. mr. brookman, you just spoke to this. in your brief comments. i want to go to dr. spafford, if i could. i appreciate this you start with recommendations to us. and basically, summarize these. i think that the thing that is of concern to me is when it comes to notification, it's basically looks as if what is happening is a culture of damage control. by not doing the expediently, and i think we all realize that the technology is there for almost instant notification. and allowing individuals to know. now i'm one of those that would prefer to see the industry move forward with some best practices and some standards on how to deal with not only the data security issue, but also the privacy issue. whether you are looking at the epsilon case, or

mr. chairman. >> i appreciate questions and answers and turn to the gentlelady from tennessee ms. blackburn. >> thank you mr. chairman. commissioner mcdowell mentioned an article by randolph and mr. chairman, i would like to submit that article for the record. i agree with the commissioner i read it and thought it was insightful. >> without objection. >> thank you. i'm going to try to speed my questions up. you all have been to the patient. chairman genachwoski, a lot to ask you, looking at the process you followed on the net neutrality i want to ask about a "fortune magazine" article that you have affirmed in that article 2 different times net neutrality rules were already in effect. so are these rules in effect? >> i think i may have been making the point that on a bipartisan basis before i got to the commission of the commission had been forced net neutrality rules against companies or rules part of the problem? >> i hate to interrupt you but i think what the questioner -- the reporter said that means there or laws. these are rules that have been written and are in effect in your respons