Sam Liccardo

There's a reason why there ought to be a public discussion because this is going to impact all of us, and certainly when we talk about issues like public surveillance.

Well, I'm not going to speak for Congress because frankly, as you know,

If you ever made a bet on Congress not getting anything done, you win 99 times out of 100.

Yeah, yeah, they're doing pretty well.

But I will say this week I'll be introducing a provision in what's called the Defense Productions Act really to prevent

any federal agency from retaliating against companies like Anthropic when they proposed reasonable limits on the deployment of their technology.

Technology is obviously a wonderful thing.

We know it has enormous risks.

We ought to take the cues from industry when industry tells us these risks are too great, let's draw lines.

We'll be discussing it this week in the House Financial Services Committee where we're having a markup.

I'm still having those conversations with my colleagues.

Well, I know this president is not unique in using executive orders where Congress is failing to act.

The way in which these executive orders have been deployed are deeply problematic, and certainly we've seen in many cases quite unconstitutional.

Congress needs to step up, and that requires the majority party to do its...

That is to defend the prerogatives under Article I of the Constitution where Congress has authority.

And we've seen a host of areas from tariffs, certainly to AI, where Congress has simply not been stepping up and allowing this president to take too much of the turf.

There's a reason why we want Congress to be deciding this.

These are issues that have massive impacts in many communities that are diverse, communities that are simply not benefiting from AI as much as my community in Silicon Valley might be.

That's why you need to have a national conversation.

I'd like to think we can.