This Week's Quotes

Asking these public servants to now accept a pay freeze as the cost of living continues to rise amounts to an effective pay cut.

The president has inappropriately classified two-thirds of the federal workforce as having national security missions without any explanation whatsoever.

“Every day, we hear from Virginians with alpha-gal syndrome who struggle to feed themselves and their families safely. Reading a label should not require guesswork or a call to the manufacturer. Clear allergen labeling would give people…

“Cases of alpha-gal syndrome are rapidly increasing in Virginia and across the country, and nearly everyone I meet has or knows someone whose life has been affected by this disease. We must do more to understand, prevent, and treat AGS and…

Foreign adversaries are increasingly targeting America’s communications networks. Securing them requires an approach that keeps pace with evolving threats. This sensible bill brings government and industry together to develop voluntary…

The Salt Typhoon intrusion was the worst telecom hack in our nation’s history and showed us just how vulnerable our critical infrastructure is, but it does not have to be that way. If telecommunications companies adopt cybersecurity best…

Our current health care system makes it hard and expensive for Virginians and Americans across the country to access the care they rely on.

Innovation without control just leads to chaos, and this is our moment to make sure that the American people have control over the incredible strides we’re seeing on AI.

I’d want them to understand that we need to act. The idea that if we do nothing means that nothing bad happens is false.

Congress passed a law to invest in saving lives, protecting the American people, and advancing our interests abroad; it did not hand Trump a checkbook to spend on whatever he pleases while blocking funding for everything else.

Hurricanes and floods and tornadoes and fires don’t pick and choose their targets based on how the last election went.

We’re all paying the price for our inaction.

Disasters used to be an unfortunate reality you had to deal with from time to time. Now, we’re getting back-to-back hurricanes on top of historic floods... That is not normal.

It’s the warming planet.

The companies building the most powerful AI systems in the world are sounding the alarm: the step-change increase in AI models’ capacity for cyber-offense, combined with clear failures to securely host and deploy these capabilities, could…

Every day, we’re seeing new reports of AI models going rogue and hacking systems without our knowledge or oversight. The risks of AI are not theoretical – they are happening in real-time.

Thanks to President Trump we are the energy superpower of the world, but our refining capacity is our Achilles’ heel.

The work to ensure energy security through increased refining capacity is a marathon, not a sprint.