Zoe Lofgren

I include in the Record an article by David Halperin from this March titled: ``Congress Should Reject Bill to Let Private Groups Control Access to U.S. Laws.'' The article can be found at the following link: https://…

Here is a paragraph that is important and really places the question before us succinctly: ``In the regime posited by the Pro Codes Act, if citizens, or advocates, or journalists, or business operators, or lawmakers, or even judges wanted…

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman has 11 minutes remaining.

Here is what they say: ``You didn't learn about incorporation by reference from Schoolhouse Rock, but it is one of the key ways policymakers create law. A huge portion of the regulations we all live by, such as fire safety codes, or the…

When a member of the House Judiciary Committee asked Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights and the Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, for her opinion of the Pro Codes Act, this is what she said: ``The public should have access…

I note that in Veeck v. Southern Building Code, in the 5th Circuit, a more conservative circuit, they ruled that model building codes adopted by reference into law could be copied freely. The court reasoned that once a standard is…

I just note that when the standards setting organization sued Public.Resource.Org, the D.C. Circuit Court said this in ruling for freedom of the law: ``Once a standard is incorporated by reference into the law, it effectively becomes part…

I want to start off by recognizing that the felony convictions of a former President represent a first for our country and that is solemn. I don't celebrate these convictions.

Now, Ambassador Eisen, can you please talk about these increased threats to public officials as well as distrust in the system, how harmful both of those could be to our country's independent judiciary and really our democracy?

It is a conspiracy theory.

Now, some of my colleagues say the Department of Justice, a Federal agency that is part of the Biden Administration, somehow directed the Manhattan District Attorney to indict Mr. Trump in a New York State case.

Now, some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim the verdict against the ex-President is--and these are all quotes, ``a travesty,'' ``rigged,'' and ``a sham,'' that the jury of peers who assembled to do their civic duty…

Can democracy survive if the rule of law is eroded?

Just to make things clear, it is fair to say that President Biden himself was not involved in this case?

It is my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), someone who has worked on these issues for so many years.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Stevens), a distinguished member of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who did so much work on this.

For starters, we need to examine why we are being hustled to do this today. When we extended FISA earlier, there was a provision in the bill that allowed the FISA court to extend, and they have taken advantage of that. They have extended…

I would note that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board did recommend by a majority vote that a warrant requirement be imposed. Mr. Speaker, to ignore this advice is to ignore our Constitution. We take an oath every Congress to…

There are clear differences between the cases of, and precedents set by, Presidents Reagan, Trump, and Biden.

Now, we need to give that level of attention and support to research into electric vehicles, and specifically into the lithium-ion batteries that power them.

We simply don't have the data to suggest that.

This is great news - reducing emissions from the transportation sector is crucial in our fight against climate change.

As you've mentioned, electric vehicles make up an increasing share of cars on the road, and that's really good news.

I don't think most of the manufacturers have really addressed cybersecurity, and it's something we might ask NIST to identify and provide some standards.

If the data isn't available to indicate that EVs are more dangerous than the internal combustion engine, we need to research that.