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I think some other employee groups within the State Department are concerned that this is sort of a backdoor way to simply implement assignment restrictions.

Data continues to show that African Americans and Americans of Hispanic origin continue to be severely underrepresented at the senior levels of the Foreign Service.

It is important that we get to Americans outside of our East Coast, West Coast, that we need people from all 50 States.

I commend Secretary Blinken for eliminating all assignment restrictions on an ongoing forward basis.

So let me ask you this: why not remove all assignment restrictions right now?

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, we are still hearing the same claims that we heard at our first immigration hearing this year.

This is not a serious process.

I would note that we now know for certain that the Republicans' extreme, cruel, and unworkable border bill cannot pass the Senate.

You do not impeach a Cabinet Secretary because you do not like his policies.

It is clear that Chair Jordan and Members of the Committee have already made up their minds.

These are not the policies of an open border. They are the opposite.

They are simply catering to the most extreme Members of their caucus who have demanded impeachment of somebody, anybody, as the price of their support for the Speaker.

Thank you, Chair Issa and Ranking Member Johnson, for holding this important hearing.

To train a model, you need to actually download the Taylor Swift songs?

I don't know that would necessarily be the case.

Now, as you know, voice cannot be copyrighted.

It would not be infringement.

Then, finally, in fact, you believe I could, then, copyright this Taylor Swift-like song with voice like Taylor Swift that I generated by scraping the Internet with Taylor Swift copyrighted songs I didn't pay her for, right?

the decision of whether or not they're violating copyright is not at the time when they're listening...

So, my remaining comment and question for Professor Callison-Burch about disclosure--and Congressman Nadler asked about this--many creators already use AI, right, in their creative works?

As a recovering computer science major, I am enthralled with AI, and I believe it has, and will continue to, revolutionalize society.

When our men and women are staring down at enemy forces across the battlefield, our weapons and our will better be better than theirs.

It is completely, undeniably, 100 percent unacceptable that American soldiers, men and women like ourselves, may have to 1 day be forced to stare down the barrel of an American-made weapon because the Biden Administration has let the…

Let's be clear that Xi Jinping is gearing up for a fight. He is preparing for conflict by being more competitive.

I don't think reinventing the wheel makes a lot of sense.