The bill that Senator Kennedy and I have, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would allow local news organizations to negotiate with online platforms, including generative AI platforms.

A recent study by Northwestern predicted that one third of the U.S. newspapers that existed roughly 2 decades ago will be gone by 2025.

Do you agree that without tools for people to determine whether an image or video generated by AI, that that would pose a risk to our free and fair elections?

I guess I would turn to you, Mr. Brooks. You talked about advocating for creating ways to help people identify AI-created content.

A recent study by Northwestern predicted that one third of the U.S. newspapers that existed roughly 2 decades ago will be gone by 2025.

The bill that Senator Kennedy and I have, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would allow local news organizations to negotiate with online platforms, including generative AI platforms.

We need to ensure that our policies reflect the needs of Native peoples.

I guess I would turn to you, Mr. Brooks. You talked about advocating for creating ways to help people identify AI-created content.

I would ask that we try to appropriate the resources necessary to do what we all want to do, which is to eliminate the fraud and repatriate the dollars, reclaim, and claw them back, please.

I very much appreciated your testimony, as you reviewed some of the history of the illegal land transfers which is, of course, as you pointed out, part of the long legacy of taking land from the Ojibwe people in this place that is now…

I want to make sure that we go after the fraudsters.

Donald Trump didn't cause the fraud, nor did Joe Biden.

I am deeply, deeply disturbed by the Taliban's crackdown on everyday life for the people of Afghanistan.

Thank you, Chair Wilson, for holding this important meeting.

Clearly, Russia's war in Ukraine, China's aggression in the region, has opened a door of opportunity, I think it's fair to say, for us to deepen our engagement.

But we are also going to have to look at, I would say, banning some of this content.

While we cannot and we should not recognize or support the Taliban in any way, we must work alongside our international partners to support the Afghan people.

Thank you so much, Chair Schatz and Vice Chair Murkowski, for holding this hearing today and including my bill, the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Technical Corrections Act of 2023.