Michael Bennet

Earlier this year, Senator Lankford, my colleague on the Intel Committee and I introduced the Security and Oversight of International Land Holdings Act, or the SOIL Act, as a means to address foreign investment oversight.

My State ranks third in the Nation in foreign-owned farm and ranchland, behind only Texas and Maine, which raises economic and national security challenges for us.

I believe strongly in the First Amendment, and I think that is a critical part of our democracy.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you very much for holding this hearing and thank you for the bill that you have allowed me to co-sponsor as well.

They do not have a First Amendment right to do that and we need to stop it.

We have to find a way to protect it. But it cannot be an excuse for not acting.

Disinformation itself, of course, is not something that is new.

We need to write legislation here that does not compromise or unconstitutionally impinge on the First Amendment.

Congress must take action to address the Administration's failure to protect and uphold our Indian reserved water rights.

Earlier this year, Senator Lankford, my colleague on the Intel Committee and I introduced the Security and Oversight of International Land Holdings Act, or the SOIL Act, as a means to address foreign investment oversight.

My State ranks third in the Nation in foreign-owned farm and ranchland, behind only Texas and Maine, which raises economic and national security challenges for us.

Thank you and the Ranking Member for holding this important discussion today. I really appreciate it.

We haven't had a discussion about how do we get to an end state here where AI reflects the values that this democracy supports in terms of freedom, in terms of rights, in terms of free speech and other kinds of things.

I'm going to hang it up right next to Angus's poem.

How about if you had replayed on a day-to-day basis the decisions that were made about our nuclear arsenal?

But faster isn't better, even when you're analyzing data.

I think it's very, very clear that our complete lack of export controls, our complete lack of paying attention to the protection of our IP, has allowed China to build something in outer space that's our near-peer competitor.

We haven't had a discussion about how do we get to an end state here where AI reflects the values that this democracy supports in terms of freedom, in terms of rights, in terms of free speech and other kinds of things.

I'm going to hang it up right next to Angus's poem.

How about if you had replayed on a day-to-day basis the decisions that were made about our nuclear arsenal?

But faster isn't better, even when you're analyzing data.

I think it's very, very clear that our complete lack of export controls, our complete lack of paying attention to the protection of our IP, has allowed China to build something in outer space that's our near-peer competitor.

But faster isn't better, even when you're analyzing data.

We haven't had a discussion about how do we get to an end state here where AI reflects the values that this democracy supports in terms of freedom, in terms of rights, in terms of free speech and other kinds of things.

How about if you had replayed on a day-to-day basis the decisions that were made about our nuclear arsenal?