This guy is a Congressional Representative and chairman of Homeland Security Appropriations, but he knows next to nothing about encryption. On top of that, based on his extremely limited knowledge of encryption he's decided that it's a national security threat despite the fact that it's been around for decades. The fact that we have people this brain dead running this country is scary!
Doesn't Rep. Carter have staffers who can point out to him that computer encryption has been around for decades, and it's what keeps all sorts of stuff safe, including his banking details, his credit card purchases, the confidential memos he receives in Congress and much, much more? And yet, he's suddenly discovered encryption and he's decided it's bad because it might, someday, end up on computers?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150327/07312030462/congressional-rep-john-carter-discovers-encryption-worries-it-may-one-day-be-used-computers-to-protect-your-data.shtml