On the recordMarch 6, 2019
I appreciate and I love the concepts of technology. I am really concerned. This should actually be a bipartisan concern, because at some point is that executive director going to be one party or another, or demonstrate certain political bias? But if you hand sole authority to the executive director to appoint a 15-member commission that is going to establish saying, here is how we are going to review these grants and what sort of grants and direction, I am sorry, but you are creating all sorts of both policy leakage here, potentially a favoritism to certain either technologies or securities or firms. I don't have a problem with the attention. I think it is actually an authority that should have been given to one of the other committees instead of creating a fourth one, because we have this tendency, as Members of Congress, to sort of create bureaucracies on top of bureaucracies. But please understand--and I am being as genuine as I can--I fear that it may not happen now, it may not happen for a few years, but you are creating, as technology changes, as there will be a time in our future where I may be voting through a blockchain technology on my phone, have you just created the very commission that actually said: Hey, here is the security mechanics. Oh, by the way, our security mechanics favor the seven people who actually have a relationship to this particular security encryption who have a friend who is a friend?…
