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.

While it is true that coal has decreased as a percentage of energy mix, much of that decrease was deliberately caused by intentional anti-coal policies, not by market forces.

U.S. coal production has been targeted by administrative policies starting in the Obama administration.

The Trump administration rightfully ended this moratorium, but the ban was unfortunately reinstated by the Biden administration in April 2021.

Too often, these contracts are designed to fail.

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

We have heard this Administration say that coal is no longer needed for energy and is too emissions heavy to fit into a lower emissions future.

But we are also going to have to look at, I would say, banning some of this content, because even a label or a watermark--it is not going to help the artist or the candidate if everyone thinks it is them and it is not.

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.

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.

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

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.

Too often, these contracts are designed to fail.

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

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.