Zoe Lofgren: “I have some concerns about what is in this bill. Coming from Silicon Valley, I have very strong concerns about what is…”

“I have some concerns about what is in this bill. Coming from Silicon Valley, I have very strong concerns about what is not happening with technology and how we are very foolishly trying to censor ourselves. Mr. Chairman, I got the information about the CyberCongress, and that we were all going to get a computer. Mine arrived at my office 6 months late, and what we did was we called just a regular vendor out of the phone book, not anybody politically connected. They will sell these machines to us for $900 less than we paid for them and they will deliver them in 4 days. So we are going to spend $400,000 more on these computers than we needed to spend. It makes me very suspicious, I will say that. It makes me very uncomfortable. I am also concerned that for those of us who use the Internet frequently, as I do, one of the things you cannot get from the CyberCongress is the voting records, how we voted every day. You can get extension of remarks, you can get tributes to Little League coaches, but you cannot find out how your Congress Member voted on the Internet. I have introduced a bill to require us to post that information. It has not had a hearing. It seems to me if we can print votes every day in the Congressional Record, they ought to be posted on the Internet too. I think this bill should address that.”