"There can be no doubt that the Chinese government regularly imposes severe restrictions on the freedom of the press."
"I understand Mr. Rohrabacher's concern that while we grant entry to some 800 Chinese state-sponsored journalists, China allows entry to only 2 BBG journalists."
"Isn't it just--wouldn't it solve our problem in the Internet world if we were just transparent to users and gave them enforceable choices?"
"the capacity to know everything about individuals because of technology that has been deployed, and yet individuals may not even be aware that their picture is being taken with facial recognition tech..."
"we need to have rules--individuals have to have the ability to enforce their understandings, either through the FTC or through private rights of action."
"I personally do not consider Medicare and Social Security to be welfare."
"I would actually like to see something like the Cuban Adjustment Act extended to other victims of communism."
"I think that would be a worthy goal. This bill does not do that."
"Something like a quarter of the patents in the United States come from the Silicon Valley."
"I think there is a problem, and I think we are not going to solve it here today."
"I would simply say that, of course, we all appreciate the work that the employees of the Library of Congress do every day on behalf not only of the Congress but of the American people."
"I think this oversight hearing is an important one."