That's great news for us. Not such great news for the witnesses.

I regret that I missed roll call votes today, due to the birth of my fourth grandchild. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 383, ``yea'' on rollcall No. 384, and ``yea'' on rollcall No. 385. ____________________

I'm just talking about protecting kids. This is very simple.

Apparently that is not the case in the United States of America today, under this administration.

I can't think of another time in American history when the President of the United States... wanted the censorship.

There's no national security threat that is more significant for the United States than China.

I think it's safe to say that all of you are here today because you are opposed to government censorship.

In what circumstances would the parents have access?

Yes. And again, a regime that is fundamentally evil, that is inflicting the kind of atrocities on its own citizens that you just alluded to, that is doing to the Uyghurs, what it's doing, that it's running modern day concentration…

we have a responsibility here now to do our part to make sure that this new technology, which holds a lot of promise but also peril, actually works for the American people.

we don't make the same mistakes that Congress made with social media where, 30 years ago now, Congress basically outsourced social media to the biggest corporations in the world.

There's no national security threat that is more significant for the United States than China.

No, we're not. We're talking about your chatbot. We're talking about Bing Chat.

I don't want AI to be the latest accelerant of that trend.

I don't want American companies to be aiding in any way the Chinese government and their oppressive tactics.

You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?

What the Court of Appeals found is that the White House... actively coerced every major social media platform in America.

You'd condemn what the Chinese government's doing to the Uyghurs, and the Xinjiang Province, and all of that?