we have seen the Biden Administration try to influence social media companies, including, you know, weaponizing the FBI in that effort.

The CCP is trying to do that, but also, I mean, there are American companies, there are social media companies, there are apps that are essentially doing the same thing.

The Biden Administration has failed to protect Americans not only at our wide-open Southern border, but also our interest from the communist threat.

There is a balance between Federal regulation and also regulation amongst the states.

I would encourage you and I would love for you to review the States Reform Act, a bill that I wrote last session.

While I firmly support the right of Americans to make choices about what to put in their body, we can all agree it is a desirable outcome for less people to smoke cigarettes.

Thank you for your work on scheduling reform and your recommendation that cannabis should be moved to Schedule III.

I have seen it benefit in my own life, and welcome to my world. I am a mom of teenage kids.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Califf, thank you for being here today, and thank you for your work on scheduling reform and your recommendation that cannabis should be moved to Schedule III.

I think we can all learn something, probably from recent history, the FBI's interpretation of the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation.

Last October 30, the White House released a monumentally lengthy executive order on artificial intelligence.

Unnecessary new laws could stifle AI innovation, slowing the arrival of life-enhancing and lifesaving breakthroughs.

There is a lot at risk here, and we do not want our adversaries getting ahead of us.

Does anyone on the panel know if Commerce is doing anything related to this executive order?

I urge Congress to consider that we already have many proposals that have some bipartisan support.

the new executive powers this EO asserts have no logical sunset.

Any movement on the DPA provisions of the EO?

the risk that we relinquish our current lead in AI to China, and that could have catastrophic implications for our military preparedness.

this use of the DPA appears to be executive overreach and, quite frankly, illegal.

wouldn't it be better to have a microcosm of experiments?

But why the stampede? We are only just starting to grasp how AI can help and also harm humanity.

We do not want to stifle innovation. We do not want to stifle investment in AI or its innovation in any way, shape, or form.

We should target those harms, we should treat those seriously, and we should deal with them.

It gives them, basically, broad authority to do whatever.

They can do whatever they want.