Eddie Bernice Johnson: “Thank you Chairwoman Fletcher for holding this hearing today, and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here.”

Last month, I introduced and withdrew an amendment, at the request of Chairman Lucas, that incapsulates my legitimate concerns on the disparate impacts AI technologies have on people that look like me.

Diversity fosters a wider range of ideas and approaches, leading to more innovative solutions and better problem-solving capabilities in the scientific community.

We want people who are intellectually curious, I think, to get those people and get them into the field.

He understood that the business of legislating and good politics required great skill in the art of compromise.