"This is about ethics and the law."
"I'm grateful that we are at a point in the pendulum switch shift here that we are looking at this as a public health crisis and epidemic, which we did not do with crack cocaine."
"Opponents of syringe service programs have argued that these approaches fuel drug use rather than reduce the risk of disease."
"In my district there are four syringe service programs."
"My father, like millions of Americans, as someone who battled heroin addiction, opioid addiction, and was in and out of the criminal justice system, committing crimes to support that addiction."
"We have to move holistically. We have to move with urgency, and I do believe we need not only on-demand treatment, but it need to be culturally competent, it needs to be gender specific and responsive..."
"The testimony shared today underscores the severity of the student debt crisis taking place in our country."
"The report links this phenomenon to a quote/unquote, Trump effect."
"Okay. Did NIST present any red flags to agencies about inaccuracies in any particular system used by a government agency that you are aware of?"
"It has been abundantly clear that facial recognition technology is flawed by design, unlawfully producing false matches due to algorithmic bias."
"there is growing and, I do believe, credible concern over the unauthorized use of this technology in public spaces such as airports, schools, and courthouses."