Brett Guthrie: “Thank you, Chair DeGette, for holding this important hearing.”

If you look at what’s going on in local communities, people are just concerned. These large loads coming into their local community, what’s it gonna do to their rates … And so that I think it opens up the opportunities for data centers to…

We’re not competing with Europe to regulate. We’re competing with China to regulate.

And so you can do both: you can protect local ratepayers and you can make sure we beat China, which is the No. 1 priority.

It is an important milestone — not a finish line — in the effort to better protect children online.