California voters should have the right to decide if the state should respond to the president’s effort to rig the election.
Jerry McNerney
The Public Record
Jerry McNerney is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 9th congressional district since 2007. He has focused on energy and environmental issues throughout his tenure, advocating for sustainable practices and policies to combat climate change. McNerney has also been involved in various initiatives aimed at improving healthcare and supporting education in his district.
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August 21, 2025
The president and the Texas Republicans are rigging the election … it is our duty to fight fire with fire.
— Jerry McNerney
Well, the French postmodernists in the 1930's--1930's and 1940's were sort of warning us that the government would be getting more and more information about us and being able to use that information to control our political decisionmaking…
So that's a great answer, educate more people so that we can utilize the AI in a more productive way than letting it make decisions for us.
I think the technology being discussed here represents a great potential to simultaneously eliminate economic loss while addressing harmful emissions.
I spent my career before coming to Congress developing wind turbine manufacturing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, you've shown tremendous leadership over the years since I've been here.
We need to increase domestic manufacturing without being susceptible to supply chain disruptions.
Micron has made a strong commitment, including a commitment to spend $1 billion over the next several years in capital investments to be able to reduce our carbon footprint.
I believe fusion development is moving quickly and that, once commercially available, will be an important contributor to our baseload power needs.
I've been a longtime and enthusiastic supporter of fusion energy starting with work at Los Alamos National lab when I was a grad student.
I'm in favor nuclear energy because we're going to need it, but it's got to be done right, and that includes nuclear waste.
I am a cosponsor of Mr. Rush's bill, the Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act.
In general, I have heard clearly that uniform NIL regulations are needed, as well as a level playing field.
This much-needed bill would authorize the FTC to establish an office of technologists staffed with more than two dozen experts on information technology, cybersecurity, computer science, and related fields.
One of the bills we are considering today is H.R. 4530, legislation that I authored, which would establish an office of technologists at the FTC.
What consumers need today is, instead, a robust Commission, empowered to go after truly bad actors in the marketplace.
Reducing the ability of purveyors of disinformation, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories to abuse social media tools must be a pressing national priority.
Extreme weather events have gotten more common across the country, and grid operators have struggled to deliver reliable power to its customers.
good regulations are going to make--are going to spur innovation in developing this technology, and in developing these materials.
I think this bill is necessary to ensure that we are thinking about the future supply chain and what to do about the robust marketplace for communication equipment.





