Reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy to Irs's $20m Contract Award to Choicepoint

U.S. Newswire › June 28, 2005

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WASHINGTON, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D- Vt.) is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and, with Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), has drafted a comprehensive data privacy bill that they will soon introduce. (For summary of the draft bill, see: http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200506/ 062305b.html )

ChoicePoint's recent data breach was examined during recent Judiciary Committee hearings requested by Leahy. The IRS is awarding a $20 million data processing contract to ChoicePoint. Following is a statement by Sen. Leahy in response to that contract:

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Reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy to Irs's $20m Contract Award to Choicepoint

"It is especially galling right now to be ...

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