"There are real concerns about the risks that this technology poses to our civil rights and liberties and our right to privacy."
"There is wide agreement that we should be conducting oversight of this issue to develop commonsense, concrete proposals in this area."
"Thank you very much."
"Thank you for the opportunity to address this important issue before the committee, and I look forward to answering your questions."
"Well, if it was prior to facial recognition coming into existence, I am just wondering, do you think that whatever laws you are referring to anticipated something like facial recognition?"
"So when you say 'leverage,' I guess you are saying that there were laws that were out there. These laws did not anticipate something like facial recognition, and now the FBI has decided that it would ..."
"We have seen significant concern among states about providing this level of access to the FBI."
"Well, it is accurate."
"We are talking about people who have been arrested, right? Not necessarily convicted."
"One of the things I am hoping that you will look at is that whole question."
"Twenty-one states, okay."
"Look, we are not Luddites here. We recognize, I think, advancements that science is making."