New Mexico has been a dumping ground for nuclear waste since the nuclear program began in the 1940's.

This shameful legacy of negligence and lies has hurt so many people in St. Louis, and they continue to suffer to this day.

I've got major concerns with--with how it is playing out, and particularly when it comes to fentanyl.

Are you saying that we have to accept AI chatbots encouraging people to kill themselves for the possibility that maybe it will cure cancer?

We’ve got 190 people a day in the United States who die of fentanyl overdose.

Senator Blumenthal and I, who you were just talking to a second ago, he and I have a bipartisan bill that would say that parents and others who are harmed by AI should be able to get into court.

Why should the biggest, most powerful technology companies in the history of the world, why should they be insulated from accountability?

That is, as one witness said at that Committee hearing, that's like a 737 crashing every single day.

Why shouldn't these companies...allow a parent whose child is harmed by our technology...to have their day in court?

It is devastating how little we seem to focus on the horrific conditions they are facing.

Are you saying that we have to accept AI chatbots encouraging people to kill themselves for the possibility that maybe it will cure cancer?

Failing to end our dangerous policies that fuel chaos abroad will only guarantee more people being forced to flee their homes and countries.

I think your position is just absolutely extraordinary.

Let us be clear. There is a crisis right now, but it is not because the Southern border is open or because immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country, which the Republicans and their racist cult leader, Donald Trump, want you to…

Do we want AI chatbots that encourage people to commit suicide, do we want them being able to talk to teenagers?

Senator Blumenthal and I...have a bipartisan bill that would say that parents and others who are harmed by AI should be able to get into court.

MAG Republicans, but also some Democrats, want to pretend that a lack of enforcement is the problem.

Thank you. St. Louis and I are here today in solidarity with our immigrant community and in opposition to the demonizing and scapegoating by far-right MAGA extremists.