Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4755, the Privacy Enhancing Technology Research Act, is another very important bipartisan piece of legislation that we bring to the House floor this evening on the heels of the pronouncement of the Speaker and minority leader to form an AI task force that is led by Mr. Obernolte of California on the Republican side and Mr. Lieu, also of California, on the Democratic side. What the Privacy Enhancing Technology Research Act gets us is an opportunity to further strengthen and utilize Federal agencies to regulate our artificial intelligence. This legislation has been met with the endorsement of the Federation of American Scientists, the Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California system, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Future of Privacy Forum. I thank my colleague, Congressman Kean, for joining me in this legislation. I also recognize Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska for working in the other Chamber and for their contributions to the legislation. We have a path not only to see this pass here in the House but to see it pass in the Senate and become Federal law. We are living, as we all know, in the time of the modern digital economy, probably a hyper-digital economy, that is fueled by an astronomical amount of personal data compounded over decades at this point in time. In this AI-powered world, personal data protection is absolutely imperative.…”