"Consumers should not be required to surrender their personal data every time they make a simple financial transaction."
"That is the Chinese model, and it facilitates full-spectrum surveillance of the entire population."
"I recently introduced the ECASH Act, which would direct Treasury to design and pilot a digital version of cash."
"I believe the recent White House memo on stablecoins makes strides in this direction, but that the Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement (STABLE) Act... achieves these goals more compreh..."
"I grew up on the border and find the fact that my community is not protected by the principles of the Fourth Amendment to be entirely unacceptable."
"Ultimately, however, Congress should pass legislation instantiating data minimization, including by limiting the collecting, processing, and usage of data to only that which is required."
"Addiction is a health epidemic and we need to make sure we are treating it that way, not making more drugs available and making it easier to have that happen."
"So, Bob, you know, in 2020, after McKinsey's work for Purdue Pharma came to light your firm admitted that it, quote, 'did not adequately acknowledge that the epidemic unfolding in our communities or t..."
"Do you agree, yes or no, that calling a half a million deaths an epidemic or crisis is hyperbolic?"
"You are making money off of poisoning people."
"You all were happy to think that this warning wasn't going to derail McKinsey's pill-pushing schemes."
"86 percent of overdoses in my district in the city of Detroit were due to overdoses from opiate."