if we wish to prevent crypto assets from being used, for example, for ransomware or other criminal payments, that there is no logical alternative to having all crypto transactions be associated with a legally-traceable identity.

But, because of the current chip shortage, at this moment, most of our engineering staff is busy not designing new products, but on redesigning existing products around chips that can actually be purchased on the open or gray markets.

I think just collaborating with your international colleagues to at least quantify the damage, so that policymakers understand the tradeoff they're making.

I definitely endorse that.

This makes you sensitive not only to cost and schedule delays, basically, in the U.S. program, but in having correct predictions of when, you know, scientific competitors will actually do these things.

Let's--actually, I'd like to speak a little about the issues about optical and radio interference...

It's good that you maintain the flexibility and the agility that you get from these multiple maybe smaller things.

I would like to speak a little bit about vaccine hesitancy among parents of young children.

It is based on your duty to your family and your community, and ultimately your country and all humanity.

So it may, in fact, be Aaron Rodgers who is that one-in-a-billion person who incubates through his selfish decisions, incubates a new variant that could put billions of people at risk.

As a scientist, I am really proud of the work that researchers have done to develop and test vaccines.

The data show that the vaccines are literally lifesavers and that serious side effects are rare.

there is a sort of theological framework that is centered on healing and treating your neighbor as you would treat yourself.

Yet, one recent study found that only three out of 10 parents of kids between 5 and 11 plan to vaccinate their children immediately.

This is not only an issue for young kids. Also, it is an issue in utero, because there is lots of evidence that it is very bad for the mother and the child to get COVID.

I will just leave it up to God.

We have been very active in overseeing that production effort and also making sure that when the first doses were available they were equitably distributed.

We saw what happened to our educational system, where children were not able to have the kind of access to education as a result of this.

the decision to get vaccinated is one place where the data could not be more clear: all three of the FDA-approved vaccines are extremely safe and extremely effective.

As one of two Ph.D. scientists in Congress, I always look to the research and data when making decisions.

there is a scientific question of what is best for me, all right? And a second question that has very little to do with science, which is what is my duty to the rest of humanity, and this is crucial.

I am very grateful for that.

one of the things that we have attempted to do in Congress to make a more competitive operation is to have data portability standards and interoperability standards.

As you take the reins of the CFPB, you are going to have to generate a workforce plan, and particularly in the area of a high-tech workforce plan to deal with AI and related issues.

It strikes me that there is a mistake that's often made on the other side of the aisle, to mistake speaking falsehoods rapidly for intelligence and truth.