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Richard Blumenthal is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Blumenthal has focused on issues such as consumer protection, healthcare, and veterans' affairs during his tenure. He previously served as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011, where he gained recognition for his advocacy on behalf of consumers and his efforts to hold corporations accountable. Blumenthal has been an active voice in the Senate, participating in various committees and addressing key national issues.
Somehow, we need to design the regulatory architecture so that we can get to the point where, if we learn new things about what makes planes safe and what makes planes crash, they get kind of automatically hooked into whatever architecture…
The Government has an obligation to invest... in safety, just as it has in other technology and innovation.
I think the recall as a concept is a good one, but there have to be teeth to it.
Hard to produce a superhuman thinking machine if you don't allow humans to think.
In many instances, let's be very blunt, agencies become captive of the industries they're supposed to regulate, and this one is too important to allow it to become captive.
We do not have these ads that aren't the real people... that we give voters the information they need...
I'm actually really excited about what we can get done, the potential for good here...
If we don't act soon, we could decay into not just partisanship but inaction.
The dangers are not just extinction but loss of jobs, one of potentially the worst nightmares that we have.
We can't repeat the mistakes that we made on social media, which was to delay and disregard the dangers.
I think there are core standards that we are building bipartisan consensus around.
I think we need some kind of regulatory agency, but not just a reactive body.
The White House certainly has recognized the urgency with a historic meeting of the seven major companies.
Somehow, we need to design the regulatory architecture so that we can get to the point where, if we learn new things about what makes planes safe and what makes planes crash, they get kind of automatically hooked into whatever architecture…
The Government has an obligation to invest--I think all of you would agree--invest in safety.
Hard to produce a superhuman thinking machine if you don't allow humans to think.
I don't think it's going to happen. We right now have a gold rush, literally much like the Gold Rush that we had in the Wild West.
In many instances, let's be very blunt, agencies become captive of the industries they're supposed to regulate.
Senator Blumenthal and I have worked together for nearly 4 years on looking at social media and the harms that have happened to our Nation's youth.
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