Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to join my colleague, the Senator from Oregon, who has been a long proponent of a very strong internet economy and privacy rights. I very much appreciate his leadership on so many of these technology issues. He and I represent a very strong technology economy in the Pacific Northwest, and we want to fight to keep that innovation. He and I actually held a summit in our adjoining communities just about the app economy. This was several years ago--probably 7 or 8 years ago now. He and I worked together to formulate, with our colleges, Washington State University and Oregon, literally just the app economy. I think about the applications we saw 7 years ago. Some of them were for hiking trails, some of them were for solutions for our law enforcement to have better information, and some of them were just pure business applications. I think about how much we have grown that app economy in the last 7 to 10 years and how much it will be impacted by an internet that is not an open internet and universal in giving people access to service.…”