(7 Feb 2025)
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Washington, DC – 6 February 2025
1. Wide Rep. Richard Neal, and Ways and Means Democrats at the podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Richard Neal, (D) Massachusetts, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee ranking member: ++WIDE++
"And part of the job, as you were reminded, is that Congress is here to oversee the executive and to check executive authority and certainly to raise some questions about what I think we’d all agree right now is constitutional overreach."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Richard Neal, (D) Massachusetts, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee ranking member:
"So I think that we are all united in this issue, that privacy remains next to liberty in our constitutional society."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Terri Sewell, (D) Alabama:
"Elon Musk has no absolutely no business handling the personal information of American taxpayers. Period. For an unelected billionaire to have full access to Americans’ personal tax and Social Security information is not only egregious violation of privacy, but it is illegal under section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Terri Sewell, (D) Alabama:
"Our phones have been ringing off the hook with constituents who are horrified and frightened that their personal information has been handed over to an unelected billionaire with no accountability to the American people."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Thompson, (D) California:
"Constitutional overreach or violation of the law? Take your pick. What I know for sure is that my constituents are upset."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Lloyd Doggett, (D) Texas:
"We will be filing a resolution of inquiry to demand that the administration answer key questions regarding the safety of American’s private data."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Lloyd Doggett, (D) Texas:
"If we do not get prompt action in the Ways and Means Committee, we’re authorized under the rules of the House to bring this directly to the Full House and perhaps at that time divided by a single vote. Americans can determine whether their member views the importance of protecting privacy and assuring an interrupted payment of Social Security payments, veterans benefits, tax refunds and the vital funds on which our families, our American businesses and our communities depend."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Steven Horsford, (D) Nevada:
"We only have one president at a time. And nobody voted for Elon Musk. Nobody voted for his hackers. The largest illegal data breach in U.S. history took place on this administration’s watch at this administration’s direction. And we still don’t know who’s in charge or what they’re up to."
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Tom Suozzi, (D) New York:
"We’re concerned about what they’re doing. We don’t know what they’re doing. Who really knows what information they have and what they’re doing with it? We could ask the inspector general. Oh no. The inspector general was fired. Who’s watching what they’re doing with this enormous vault of your private information."
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Lloyd Doggett, (D) Texas:
"You ask about the leaders. They have done something. They’ve erected a giant yield right of way sign on this Congress and whatever President Trump wants, they’re here to carry out his orders. Whatever Elon Musk tells President Trump should be implemented here, we can count on them to do it."
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