Brian Schatz actually said...

the reason we are having a more robust, more serious conversation about a Federal privacy law is that there is this California privacy law

you cannot really have a law in this space without the FTC's ability to be the expert agency and to enforce.

Yes, I will just add that I agree completely, of course, that fining authority is needed for the FTC, and it must be substantial penalties.

let us all not pretend not to know that that is happening. That is exactly what is happening.