Jerry McNerney: “the pandemic has been difficult on graduate students, postdocs and others, and it's--we've lost some critical talent…”

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…

I want to make sure that our communities have some amount of Federal protection from what might happen.

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.