Thomas Massey

There it is.

And they're gonna try to buy this seat.

And if they get away with it, it's like this is a referendum.

I don't think you're going to vote your way out of this.

If I lose, I think it's bleak.

And it's happening.

Let me give you another example of where this is happening with these data centers.

So twice I have seen and stopped special provisions from being inserted into U.S.

law to help data centers over all other types of businesses.

In the big, beautiful bill, Marjorie Taylor Greene and I noticed that there was a couple pages that would give immunity for these data centers from state law, like all state law, but also went down to the local level.

including planning and zoning.

So in other words, they were trying to get in the big, beautiful bill, a federal law that wouldn't just trample state's rights, abilities to regulate AI, but it would trample your local city commission or planning commission or county commission from being able to decide where the smokestacks and the cul-de-sacs go and keeping them separate.

And so we fought and got that taken out of the bill.

The margin of passing the big, beautiful bill was so slim that we were able to insist that they take that out there.

Marjorie withheld her vote until they took it out.

And then most recently, in the Judiciary Committee, which has no jurisdiction over the EPA—

I was sitting there in a markup.

That's where you bring like eight bills in front of the committee and you're going to sit there for several hours and you're going to debate and amend the bills in the committee of jurisdiction.

And like the sixth bill out of eight was to give immunity from lawsuits, from environmental lawsuits to data centers.

And then it- Immunity for data centers?