Power plant admissions. So, administrative reagan, can you reit gait how it could impede the rule making process with respect to pollution control measures that directly affect climate change. I can assure you a Government Shutdown would be detrimental to any work done on regulations that would help us stay globally competitive and take advantage of technology or regulations to protect vulnerable communities and children from horrible 2. 5 polluting as well. We are doing critical work to stay ahead of wildfires we are seeing across the country and we have to be in a position where staff is doing the research so we can alert immunities of the impacts. We are also trying to respond to the drought situation from impact as well so reduce the ability to respond to the Climate Impact and slow the ability to regulate emerging contaminants and prevent us fron protecting Public Health. I would say those inspectors on the job to ensure Water Infrastructure, safe Drinking Water, those will be all
Unbiased word for word from the nations capitol to wherever you are because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like, cspan powered by cable. Next look at prohibiting use of ai content in elections and Campaign Material with the former chair of the federal Election Commission and other witnesses testifying before the senate rules and Administration Committee this is about two years. Good afternoon, everyone, im honored to call this hearing to order. Im pleased to be here with my colleague senator fisher wearing her pin with ruby red slippers symbolizing theres no place like home. This place in washington is on our minds. Thank you, senator merkley for being here and we have other members attending as well and i want to thank Ranking Member fisher and her staff for working with us on this hearing on Artificial Intelligence in the future of our elections. I want to introduce i will introduce our witnesses shortly but we are joined by minnesota secr
Years. Good afternoon, everyone, im honored to call this hearing to order. Im pleased to be here with my colleague senator fisher wearing her pin with ruby red slippers symbolizing theres no place like home. This place in washington is on our minds. Thank you, senator merkley for being here and we have other members attending as well and i want to thank Ranking Member fisher and her staff for working with us on this hearing on Artificial Intelligence in the future of our elections. I want to introduce i will introduce our witnesses shortly but we are joined by minnesota secretary of state steve, vast experience in running elections and well respected in our state and nationally, trevor potter, former fbc commissioner and chair. Thank you for being here. Maya wiler, we are going to hear Ranking Member fisher will be introducing two remaining witnesses. We thank you for being here neil and ari cohn, Free Speech Council at tech freedom. Like any emerging technology, ai comes with signific
Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic