Astead Herndon

Is that true?

I hear the connection between climate and affordability that maybe wasn't front and center five or six years ago.

I wanted to also ask about the ban on surveillance pricing in particular.

I know you introduced a bill on that policy, and your bill would prohibit the use of surveillance-based pricing and wage setting.

It would also prevent the use of AI to set wages and personal data, like an individual's finance history, rather than their performance.

This all makes sense to me, but I wanted to ask—

And that it feels kind of downstream from a bigger question of tech and AI regulation that we've heard from members of the House who have called for a moratorium on data centers overall.

I was wondering why isn't something like that on this list?

And it's instead of focus on surveillance pricing and that more narrow issue.

So this is still a priority of that achievability, it sounds like.

Mm-hmm.

Part of the premise of this episode is we want to break down buzzwords like affordability and even progressive.

You know, we talked about the former, but I think the latter matters as well as it's one that can be misdefined.

What does being a progressive mean to you in 2026?

And how would you distinguish it from just being a Democrat?

Yeah, traditional democrat.

I want to ask you maybe that same question, though, and flip it.

If we asked most Americans what they think being a progressive meant, what issues do you think they would come back with?

Like, if we asked them to define a progressive member of Congress, do you think that they would say the same thing?

You know, to the point about Republican branding, obviously Donald Trump did a lot of that in the last election.