Joe Allen
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That's why it normally has overwhelming support.
You don't take something this divisive, this electric and this problematic and stick it in a back room in the last minute.
Because what's going to happen is this.
When those data centers continue to get built out, the electricity rates shoot up, that's going to be on ads that run against you in the fall.
And it will resonate, it will sting, and this effort will be seen as the big tech giveaway.
So I'm just saying straight up that you can choose to either go along with an industry that is going to fund whoever wins and switch sides like they did this recently with Trump.
They were on the other side before.
They will switch sides to what side serves them.
The people who have been involved in this movement, they're the ones that need to stand up and say, you know what, Mr. Reza, we agree with you.
Let's make a big discussion on a federal standard as soon as possible so we can then preempt wacky states.
Fine.
But that's not what's happening.
This is a vacuum that's being created on protection so that the companies can monetize on the backs of our children, on the backs of our creators and copyrighted works.
All these things are happening to enable a very small few to control more power.
And there's no guarantee they're going to be loyal to any agenda.
So I think that the president is being fouchied on this issue from inside the White House, as I might say so.
And I think that needs to get before it comes too late, needs to get dealt with.
So having said that straight up, the Republicans need to be reached out to or the Republican members on the House Armed Services Committee and then other key members in swing districts to say, let's not get on the wrong side of a 90 percent issue.
That would be Mike Rogers of Alabama, chair of the Armed Forces Committee, yes?
Correct?