Frank Pallone

Everyone, whether your candidate won or lost last week, must grapple with this threat, and I hope that we will work on a bipartisan basis to protect our democracy from foreign interference.

I strongly believe that use of cyberattacks by a foreign actor to manipulate our democracy should be troubling to everyone.

Self-driving cars have the potential to improve lives as well as save them.

As I have often said before: auto safety is a matter of life and death.

Autonomous vehicles have great potential, but they must be deployed responsibly.

We are eager for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to do sufficient data collection.

Many consumers remain unaware of the technology and its potential to decrease fatalities.

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding, and I am happy to support this amendment. The people of Flint have gone over 2 years without clean drinking water in their homes. They are still being exposed, still being harmed. I think…

I urge support for the legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge support for this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

There is no scientific doubt that the climate is indeed changing, and we need to be more aggressive about controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

It is very nice for everybody to say that, you know, they want to help the auto industry, but that certainly wasn't the case.

I think that unlike the symbol of the Republican Party, the elephant, which has a long memory, many of my GOP colleagues have very short memories.

Rather than fraudulent calls, I wanted to talk about telemarketers that we never want or we never asked for.

I joined Ranking Member Eshoo and Schakowsky last month in asking that the committee hold a hearing on updating the TCPA.

Unfortunately, a little over a decade later, these nuisance calls were on the rise again, but this time the calls did not only cause a nuisance, many of them sought to defraud consumers.

When Congress first passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act 25 years ago, we stated that consumers were already 'outraged over the proliferation of intrusive nuisance calls their homes.'

These calls are more than just a nuisance; they can add up to harassment or even outright fraud.

And I was proud to be a cosponsor of that effort.

I think it is very clear to us that it is time to start thinking about how we can update the TCPA to better protect consumers.

If you think you are getting more robocalls than ever, you are probably right.

I think one thing Congress should not be doing is passing more exemptions to the TCPA.

We have an electricity grid that represents the energy mix of the 20th century and not the present.

By lessening our reliance on fossil fuels and reducing our carbon emissions we can make our energy future more secure.

I find this arbitrary deadline to be completely unnecessary. In fact, it could be detrimental to the ultimate approval of an export application.