So it depends on the local coroner?

I want to just return to the exchange you had with Senator Hirono on drug overdoses.

I think those numbers are probably tremendously incomplete.

I am very pleased and proud to speak to my colleagues today about Vernon Oliver, whose nomination is before us. We will vote on it shortly. I anticipate that he will be approved, and I hope it will be with bipartisan support because Vernon…

Transparency in our process is as important as transparency in the disclosure of how algorithms work.

Transparency in our process is as important as transparency in the disclosure of how algorithms work.

I have authored a framework for protecting the public against some of the perils, I would like to think all the perils, of AI.

I have authored a framework for protecting the public against some of the perils, I would like to think all the perils, of AI.

The human rights situation in Saudi Arabia has dramatically deteriorated.

Given the terrible human rights record of Saudi, which we have been discussing and as well, of course, MBS himself, which are overseeing these abuses...

At a time when authoritarian regimes are gaining power and people around the world are losing freedom, it is important that we stay vigilant against anyone who wants to protect, promote, or normalize autocracy.

We do America a disservice if we do not evaluate it accordingly, especially given that censorship and the silencing of dissidents is part of the Saudi business playbook.

They are trying to create that image so that as policymakers go about their work, there is an obfuscation about what Saudi Arabia is really about.

This is a tactic that we have seen the Saudi influence operation used post Khashoggi.

The families of 9/11 victims need and deserve accountability, and they are entitled to answers.

Saudi Arabia ought to be coming clean about what its role was in the Khashoggi murder, what its role is in the killing of migrants attempting to come from Yemen, what its role is in the torture and imprisoning of journalists, as well as…

We have been working through the Judiciary committee... on Privacy, Technology and Law.

The families of 9/11 victims need and deserve accountability, and they are entitled to answers.

the record will reflect that at least two of the witnesses are nodding in approval about greater transparency from our own government.

The idea is that when a foreign government, and not just the government, but as we have talked about, if it is an instrumentality of the government, it is operating as an agent of the government, the Kingdom and the Crown Prince benefit…

Saudi Arabia remains a brutal regime, utterly resistant to criticism, devoid of any right of free speech.

The Saudi government must take responsibility for its role, and our own government must be transparent about what actually happened.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as Justice Brandeis said.

the PIF and the Saudi government are inextricably intertwined.

This meeting of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) is called to order.