here is what is happening. Last night, Senate Democrats asked to do a 1-day continuing resolution. They also asked to do a 3-day continuing resolution. What does that mean? That means we were at an impasse because the House- passed…

I want to give you an opportunity to set the record straight about fake accounts.

I know this is a hearing about terrorism, primarily, but I think it's worth asking what we're doing about active measures.

In dollars, as a percentage of revenue, however you want to calculate it, and in terms of employee count, both part-time and full time, how many people, how many dollars are you devoting to this problem?

For many people in Hawaii, one of the most harrowing hours of their lives started just a few minutes after 8 a.m. on January 13, 2018.

I want to cover what I think are the seven worst aspects of this tax bill. The first thing is that this is not a middle-class tax cut. Credible, independent analysis of this bill found that the richest 1 percent of the United States will…

It can be empirically valid, right? I mean, the simplest example is here's where crimes have been committed in the past.

There also needs to be more transparency and consumer control on data collection.

We urge Congress to pass the Open Government Data Act, which would make non-sensitive government data more open, more available, and more usable for the general public.

I think part of what we have to do is recognize that in areas like health care and agriculture, it's a pretty much unalloyed good to have more data, to save lives, to make agriculture more productive, for instance.

AI is advancing fast. Each year, processing power gets better, hardware gets cheaper, and algorithms are easier to train thanks to bigger and better datasets.

It seems to me that this is an area that is different than a lot of these other ethical, societal, micro, macro, economic questions; this is about how we engage in warfighting.

the legislation that Senator Schatz is working on, I think trying to increase our collective understanding is critical, it's fundamental.

It's hard to believe that there is no AI policy at the Federal level, and that needs to change.

The government should not purchase or use AI systems if we can't explain what it does, especially if these systems are making decisions about our citizens' lives.

I think there's another part of this discussion, which we've heard less about, which I think is really important.

We would like to thank Ranking Member Schatz for his tireless work as an original sponsor of the OPEN Government Data Act.

I don't think with regard to national policy we'll take a European approach.

I'm worried about diversity in the industry.

Can you assure me that as NOAA Administrator, you will support the agency's climate research portfolio and advocate for sufficient levels of funding to advance research relating to climate change?

Can you assure me that as NOAA Administrator, you will comply with NOAA's scientific integrity policy and defend the rights of your scientists?

What problem are we solving with deregulation?

What are we fixing, and for whom?

We've got our heavy endurance cutters in the State of Hawaii, and a lot of them actually move east, not west.

If Congress would change regulations, we would have more freedom both to investigate and to give therapy.