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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.

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Nov 13, 2019

If this defines the new pro-life movement then you can count me out.

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Nov 12, 2019

We want them to be treated with respect.

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Oct 23, 2019

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…

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Oct 23, 2019

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…

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Oct 23, 2019

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…

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Sep 25, 2019

We really got to do a much better job with community communication between us and the FAA.

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Sep 25, 2019

I think it is impacting the health of my constituents.

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Sep 25, 2019

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.

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Sep 25, 2019

That is totally false, and we need to do better, OK?

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Sep 25, 2019

People are--my phone blew up. When you were saying how good the FAA was with community engagement, my phone blew up.

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Sep 25, 2019

I have to describe the attitude of the Boston office of the FAA is, you know, they treat us with contempt.

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Sep 25, 2019

I have to just take some exception to your description of the FAA's willingness to engage with the community.

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Sep 19, 2019

I know that many of our privacy folks get very nervous, as do I, when we--when we retarget domestic activity.

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Sep 19, 2019

I was elected on September 11, 2001.

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Sep 19, 2019

Not all right-wing extremists, white supremacists, or white nationalists are terrorists.

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Sep 19, 2019

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.

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Sep 17, 2019

As a State, we have never relinquished our ability to protect our citizens or our natural resources.

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Jul 24, 2019

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…

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Jul 24, 2019

We must not leave these parts of our population behind.

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Jul 24, 2019

There is no group that needs our help more than the 26 million Americans who have no credit history.

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Jul 16, 2019

I would add that they also have taken an approach to business that, rather than ask permission, they just apologize later.

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Jul 16, 2019

The mantra for Facebook was, 'Move fast and break things.'

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Jul 16, 2019

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?

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Jul 16, 2019

We feel that the ability of this to scale is really where the dangers come in.

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