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“Now there are zero crossovers like that. So there's zero Democrats now who are more conservative than any congressional Republicans.”

“Keep in mind the demographics around here. I mean, we have a tough time explaining cloud computing. I mean, you know, this is a challenge.”

“There was no effort or way or manner of educating our colleagues about blockchain. So we really got together and said, look, let's formalize it so we can take out rooms and do briefings, which is effectively what that means, and provide a forum for other membe…”

“I suspect, however the court ends up dealing with it, there will be a lot of language in someone's opinion saying, Congress, please fix all this, because they, and you saw that in a few of these recent cases of theirs, where they're like, look, we shouldn't be…”

“It's an issue that is, it's one of those that actually that we talked about the outset of one that's, it's not bipartisan, but it confounds partisan lines. You have Democrats on both sides, Republicans on both sides of that issue, and it's not clear where that…”

“If they lose, I think they'll lose in litigation, not in legislation. The scenario in which Apple loses, or some other provider loses, is that they lose in litigation and then they have to go to Congress In order to change the legislative landscape to undo wha…”

“So if you look at approval ratings of tech. They're incredibly high. Like they're the highest of any industry and like Amazon's approval raising, which is one of the biggest targets is like 80. Whereas Congress is like 20 and the press is like 20.”

“Lawyers don't even have the answers. Like Congress doesn't have an answer for this yet.”

“I think in the next year, it's already secretly writing laws. A lot of laws originate from an overworked staffer in Congress, and I'm sure it's two a.m. They need to finish it, and they're probably typing in ChatGPT asking, asking it to help them a bit, and so…”

“And so all of those things are among the things that I think in coming months will be addressed through the committees of jurisdiction in a bipartisan way. If politics doesn't get in the way. And as it relates to most of this, I don't think it will.”

“So if we had gone the traditional route in trying to address artificial intelligence issues, that would have meant that a number of committees of jurisdiction would have started to hold hearings on artificial intelligence in a very public way. Members of their…”

“So I do think that some are either confused. There are others who are just probably using the opportunity of this legislative effort, which is ahead of us to lever, to try and pass bills that they had prepared two decades ago.”

“The system level information comes forward in the next several days, as I said in my remarks.”

“So it hasn't, Congress did not pass a law. The, there was no executive order. There was no policy. There was no nothing. There was just phone calls and letters and threats you know, from you know, from various kind of people in the government, you know, rangin…”

“This time, so fair shake was 52 and six which is.”

“So, in 1929, we had our first employer-sponsored health plans with Blue Cross, and people forget. The first 10 years of it was like a super niche product that nobody used, and it wasn't actually until World War II, where you had a lot of the labor market going…”

“I think ultimately, my view is ultimately this will play out in Congress.”

“Governing a national AI market and governing AI development, we think is primarily Congress's role.”

“There are a number of members of Congress that feel like, well, we missed it on the 96 telecom act. Like that wasn't, we didn't do good enough around then. So we need to rewrite the wrongs through the venue of an AI policy conversation”