Steve Lynch
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Stephen Francis Lynch is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Lynch has focused on issues such as healthcare, labor rights, and economic development throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for working families and has worked to secure funding for various projects in his district.
I do appreciate the gentleman from Illinois' thoughtful support for this amendment. I thank Chair Lofgren for her leadership again in bringing the SHIELD Act to the floor and working with me on this amendment. I again urge my colleagues on…
First of all, I thank Ms. Lofgren for her leadership and her courage and hard work in bringing this important bill to the floor. My amendment to H.R. 4617, the SHIELD Act, would generally prohibit the use of so-called deepfakes within 60…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 54, insert after line 14 the following: Subtitle C--Prohibiting Use of Deepfakes in Election Campaigns…
We really got to do a much better job with community communication between us and the FAA.
The only reason that we had the one meeting that we had--I put a floor amendment on to pull $25 million from the last FAA authorization because you weren't doing outreach.
People are--my phone blew up. When you were saying how good the FAA was with community engagement, my phone blew up.
I have to describe the attitude of the Boston office of the FAA is, you know, they treat us with contempt.
I have to just take some exception to your description of the FAA's willingness to engage with the community.
I know that many of our privacy folks get very nervous, as do I, when we--when we retarget domestic activity.
Not all right-wing extremists, white supremacists, or white nationalists are terrorists.
Today, we will discuss the urgent need for the United States to treat white supremacist violence as a transnational terrorist threat to our national security.
As a State, we have never relinquished our ability to protect our citizens or our natural resources.
I think that whether you call it a fiduciary duty, or you have legal duties or legal accountability for losing someone's data, there should be a regulatory scheme in place that holds Big Data companies, whether they be credit bureaus or…
There is no group that needs our help more than the 26 million Americans who have no credit history.
I would add that they also have taken an approach to business that, rather than ask permission, they just apologize later.
Would you commit to doing this in a sandbox environment so that we do not have to worry about the regulatory issues and the privacy issues?
We feel that the ability of this to scale is really where the dangers come in.





