Political Quotes

“Madam President, before the Senate adjourned last week, we took a major step forward to ensure our kids' online safety by advancing KOSA-COPPA with strong bipartisan support--a vote of 86 to 1. Thanks to both sides working together, the Senate is on track to pass KOSA and COPPA tomorrow. These bills are perhaps the most important updates in decades to Federal laws that protect kids on the internet and a good first step. After the Senate passes KOSA and COPPA tomorrow with a strong bipartisan vote, the House should do the same when they return in September. The bipartisan momentum behind these bills is real, and we should seize this opportunity to make a law. While social media has many benefits, it also, as we know, has many risks. KOSA and COPPA will install guardrails that protect kids from these risks. Too many kids experience relentless online bullying. Too many kids have their personal data collected and then used nefariously. And sadly--sadly--too many families have lost kids because of what happened to them on social media. I have met with many of the families whose children took their own lives. We felt the pain of loss together. We have cried together. What they have gone through is impossible to imagine--losing a child and in this way. But these families, to their everlasting credit, instead of cursing the darkness, they lit a candle. They turned their grief into grace by working so hard to make sure this doesn't happen to other kids, what happened to theirs.…”