Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 8503, the Securing Global Telecommunications Act, introduced by the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Manning) and the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Kim). A week from today, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. organization that oversees global telecom and tech issues, will have a plenipotentiary for the first time in 4 years. Crucially, among the elections to be held during this time, there will be an election to decide who will lead the agency as its secretary general. The current secretary general is a Chinese national who has used his position to bolster the PRC's interests. The upcoming race to decide who will next lead the organization is between an American, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, and a Russian national, Rashid Ismailov. The Russians and Chinese have consistently staked out positions on internet governance that would make the communications sector more friendly for authoritarian governments such as they, governments that want to crack down on human rights, on freedom of speech and expression. This bill is an answer that stakes out a better telecommunications future. It calls on the administration to submit a strategy on how to promote American economic and security interests in critical technologies like 5G, Open RAN, and low-Earth orbit satellite internet.…”