Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to thank my colleague from Hawaii for making these very important remarks today with respect to expanding access to family planning. And, Senator Hirono, let me also, while you are on the floor, tell you how much I appreciate your leadership on the My Body, My Data Act. I am thrilled to be, I believe, one of your sponsors here in the Senate. It is hugely consequential, because we have known from even the draft Alito opinion that women were going to have their personal data weaponized against them. I know you have a busy schedule, but I just wanted the body to know how extraordinarily important this is, because when we look at technology and, particularly, what technology can do today, what your legislation does--with our colleague from the House, Congresswoman Jacobs--is it gives us a chance to get back to the fundamental issue of privacy rights. We are going to start looking more at the contractual relationships between women and various companies because a lot of those privacy policies aren't worth the paper they are written on. I just want you to know I am so honored to be your cosponsor on a very related piece of legislation. Your leadership has made a big difference. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Hawaii.”