Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the National Defense Authorization Act. I commend Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Rogers for their bipartisan cooperation in bringing the bill to the floor. I also want to thank Ranking Member Banks and former Ranking Member Stefanik for their bipartisan collaboration this year. I would also like to thank the members of the Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee for their hard work, particularly Vice Chair Houlahan. Thanks to the work of my subcommittee, this legislation harnesses cutting-edge technology to benefit our warfighters and our national security. This legislation includes a 36 percent increase in defense- wide basic and applied research and development and significant increases for historically Black colleges and universities. This bill also includes many provisions recommended by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which I offered as a package of amendments during our committee markup. We are taking important steps in addressing the promises and challenges of this powerful technology, and I am thankful for the commission cochairs, Secretary Bob Work and Dr. Eric Schmidt, and members of that committee as well for their service.…”