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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I first want to thank Senator Smith and this Committee for your efforts to enact the Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Act.

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?

It is beyond me why this small business administrator would not come here and testify to the $200 billion in fraud.

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.

Stauber, Hon. Pete, a Representative in Congress from the State of Minnesota

Unfortunately, the SBA and the Biden administration have failed to provide a detailed account of how this significant misappropriation of taxpayer funds occurred.

The stories that I have heard are heartbreaking and enraging, families targeted, and exploited because of their religion and their inability to get access to a traditional mortgage.

Typically they are targeting Black, Brown, and immigrant communities, poor communities, groups that have long suffered from housing discrimination.

Today, we are here to discuss the Biden administration's record on the Federal Coal Leasing Program.

This is the American dream, and it is also the way that most people build wealth and grow a safe, secure life.

This is the American dream, and it is also the way that most people build wealth and grow a safe, secure life.

Everyone wants a safe, decent place to call home. Without this, nothing in your life works--not your job, your health, your education, your family, not anything.