Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this bipartisan bill that will help ensure our technological superiority over the next decade. As the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, I am proud of our portion of the bill which energizes our science and technology enterprise, strengthens our cyber warfare capabilities, enables our Special Operations Forces around the globe, provides resources and authorities to counter terrorism and unconventional warfare threats, and advances programs and activities that counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction. I am especially pleased with the subcommittee's work to review and understand our adversarial threats, most notably, from China and Russia. We have maintained our focus on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, directed energy, hypersonics, synthetic biology, and robotics. The bill before the House incorporates four broad subcommittee themes. First, the bill better organizes the DOD to oversee, accelerate, and integrate AI and machine learning across the defense enterprise by including H.R. 5365, a bill I introduced with subcommittee ranking member, Jim Langevin. This will establish a national security commission on artificial intelligence to conduct a thorough review of the wide ranging military applications of this decisive technology.…”