Nancy Mace

They don't. They absolutely do not, and there is data showing that, supporting that.

Do you think the American taxpayers who sign the front of your paycheck, do you think that they deserve answers?

You are the director of the Office of Personnel Management and you don't know in the private sector if you don't show up to work you know what happens? You get fired.

And I find it offensive that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are calling us bullies because we don't want to chop off the breasts of a 15-year-old girl, and we certainly don't want the Federal Government funding it.

I find it ridiculous. Do whatever you want to do as an adult, but by God, don't do it to our kids.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Gallego, for this hearing today.

It's machine learning. I mean, it's all these things. It's all-encompassing, we're learning.

You know, human intelligence involved.

We have to think about this on the defensive side as much as we think about this on the offensive side.

It's going to transform the world and it's going to be epic.

Cybersecurity has been one of the few places in Congress where we have been able to be bipartisan and not crazy.

I look forward to working with everyone on both sides of the aisle on this issue. It is very important.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. I yield back.

I don't think that we are ready for what is going to happen in a very short period of time.

This is the first AI hearing this Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The government really needs to step up.

We cannot drill our way out. The best way forward is to turn to renewables and make the massive public investments we need.

The reality is that this market is bigger than the U.S. We can be a player. We are a player.

But are the biometrics, are they used both on legal citizens coming across the ports of entry and those who are crossing over illegally?

Every town is a border town.

What do you need from Congress to do more, better, faster, more efficiently?

We are here to address a critical matter of national security and foreign policy in regards to Ukraine.

This really should be a bipartisan conversation.

The evidence is very clear. It is black and white.

Censorship isn't just an important issue to conservatives. Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, like Ro, found this censorship very concerning.