markey: ms. miller? ms. miller: we already prohibit being able to comment on youtube kids and we would support working with you in regulation. sen. markey: you would support working with us but would you support banning lights? ms. miller: senator, again, we do not allow for this on the youtube kids platform. sen. markey: again the american , academy of pediatrics just declared a national state of emergency for children and teen mental health. we need to outlaw the online features that exacerbate this crisis. the question that we have to answer, ultimately is whether or not, for example we are going to ban autoplay for kids. the future when one video ends and another begins. kids stay glued to their phones so the apps gather data and make more money. parents are worried about screen -- 82% of parents are worried about their kids' screen time. to each of you, today, do you agree congress should ban autoplay for kids? yes or no? ms. miller, we will start with you this time. ms. miller: senator, each of the ite

listen to this exchange during a congressional hearing when senator markey asked if they would support to copa. >> you had a chance to look at the child online privacy protection updates, do you support it or not? >> we would love to talk to more about -- >> listen, this is what drives us crazy. we want to talk, we want to talk. this bill has been out there for years and you still don't have a view on it. emily: senior counsel of global policy of the nonprofit common sense media joined us to talk about the impacts of social media on children. >> i cannot help but agree with senator markey. this bill, or versions of it, have been out for the last decade. companies have had time to come back with real concerns and instead, all they keep doing is saying, we want to talk, we want privacy legislation, and they will not actually agree to anything. kids are suffering and teens are suffering. emily: what would this bill do and what if he enough to protect kids online? ariel: it will be a huge step forward to protect kids and teenagers online and that is critical. right now, a 13-year-old is tr

or why haven't we done anything about senator markey's law? why haven't we put in some place some rules about transparency and algorithms or, mostly, from my perspective, done anything about competition policy, and how to get alternatives. so let me start with this question, which i have asked many of the larger platforms. ms. stout said that snap reported that its advertising revenue per user in north america for the second quarter of 2021 was seven dollars 37 cents. how much of snaps revenue came from users under the age of 18? >> senator, i don't have that information for you but i'd happy to be -- >> okay, very good. i've been trying to get that from facebook, just to give you a sense. facebook's revenue, from their own user documents is 51 dollars per user. for the u.s.. per quarter, just to put it in some perspective. mr. beckerman, tiktok is a privately held company, so we don't have public documents on your advertising revenue per user. what is your best estimate of advertising revenue per u.s. user for the last quarter? >> i don't hav

markey. [roll call vote] [roll call vote] >> the no's or 14. >> the committee will report the typo to the floor of the senate. that's our markup for o this morning. we will now turn to hearing. i think our colleagues for their attendance. thank you for helping get these nominations filled and we look forward to working with all of them. >> now will turn to our hearing this morning. our hearing is a very important set of nominees. i want to welcome them ands, thr families. thank you so much forie being here. will consider the nomination to the commissioner of the federal communications commission. welcome to you and your family. understand who is joining you today. it's a broadband participating in our 21st century economy in the ftc critical role in helping a country be competitive. if confirm he will help lead the effort to address the broadband conductivity in our country due to gaps in broadband infrastructure and the lack of affordable services. as commissioner you be responsible for supp

thanks, senator markey, thanks for all your good work. senator baldwin -- actually, i see senator cantwell. oh, sorry -- >> [laughs] >> thank you, mister chairman. we all know social media offers benefits and opportunities. but death as been expressed, i have concerns about the lack of transparency online and-limited accountability of big tech companies. one of the major problems that has been increasingly concerning is the platforms use of algorithms to manipulate and shape user experience, resulting in individuals being trapped in a filter bubble. filter bubbles can be particularly troubling for younger users, for example a recent article described in detail how tiktok's algorithm serves up sex and drug videos to minors. i have a bill, the filter bubble transparency act, and another bill, the pact act, that would make significant strides in addressing the lack of transparency online. and the filter bubble transparency act would give consumers the option to engage with -- without being manipulated by opaque algorithms. do you believe tha

>> senator markey, thanks for the question.e have reset the relationship with boeing in no uncertain terms. and we have a limited delegation of various items. as i said a moment ago, certificates, we are retaining full control over that. one of the improvements that has been put in place is bowing safety management system. that is revealing issues much earlier than they were previously. and we are seeing results. it is making our oversight more effective and more systematic. we conduct regular performance reviews with them and we will continue to drive those improvements. -- >> i will just say this. honestly, limiting delegation is just not enough. we cannot trust boeing. until the systems that enabled and caused these tragedies are fully fixed. i urge you to take back the faa's full certification authorities. so, take it all back in your hands. that's just the bottom line on this, mister administrator. i also want to strongly urge you to finish implementing to overdo congressional mandates from the faa authorization act of 201

>> yes, senator markey. one thing that i would like to see the fcc do and what support if unconfirmed would be a reinterpretation of the e-rate law to permit funding to go to homes. so my daughter is in back of me, for a year and a half, her classroom which is what the law talks about being funded, right, connectivity to the classroom, was her bedroom. sometimes it was the dining room table, usually the bedroom. so the fcc in my opinion has the authority to reinterpret the law and i believe would be upheld by the courts to say that the classroom is pretty much most anywhere but it certainly is in the home. >> thank you. and i agree with you 100%. we just have to have policy and i hope we realize this is essential for children my father drove a truck for the milk company but i could compete against the school superintendents -- because i could take my books home. if you can't take your books home you'll not be competing. we thank you, ms. sohn, for your historic -- telecommunications policy thus far perk you

cliff: senator markey, thank you for that question. absolutely, if i am confirmed i will prioritize the leadership that you provided in the bipartisan law to advance rulemaking. >> and you are aware of the danger of those seatbacks collapsing into children in the backseat? dr. cliff: thank you, senator. our conversation today was very illuminating and i appreciate talking about it with you. >> so you will prioritize rulemaking of those seatbacks hitting children in the backseat? dr. cliff: we look forward to prioritizing the instruction given to us in the law. >> and there are three other provisions that senator blumenthal and i offered as well that are in the infrastructure bill, as well as other safety protections which are backlogged at nhtsa. will you pay increased attention to clearing out that backlogged so we have safety protections which are put on the books in area after area which congress has legislated? dr. cliff: the bipartisan law gives us the resources we need to get through that backlog. >> thank you very much. right no

. >> reporter: senator ed markey of massachusetts hammered the mask mandate. >> will you refund that money yes or no? >> we will give you a credit. >> passengers want the money back and you say you won't i give it back to them and at a minimum they want a voucher they can use whenever they want to. >> reporter: american and southwest acknowledge the pandemic has mate e-made it harder to recover from weather issues. >> essential not only volunteer for work. >> reporter: but republicans focused on united's vaccine mandate. as for the rapidly approaching holidays. >> near 2019 levels of travel. account airline industry handle that? >> i think we are. all the support services we need, faa, tsa guidelines. disruptive of that. >> reporter: those complaints have been off the charts. flight ant ten attendants plead. chris van cleave, cbs news. >> facility about the size of 30 football fields was heavily damaged. one employee is reported missing. qvc is still assessing the impact of products and orders. >>> wreaths across america project. at arlington national cemetery more than 250,000 wreat

. >> i will move to senator markey. sen. markey: i want to talk about the issue of seatback safety. cv has put a spotlight oncv has. >> had them showing that it could cost five dollars would fix the problem. thankfully, we have passed legislation and sent it over to deal with this problem. will you seatback safety in advance, as quickly as possible? >> senator markey i will prioritize the leadership that you have provided to advance rulemaking. >> you are aware of the danger of them to children in the backseat? >> thank you. our conversation yesterday was very illuminating. >> said he will prioritize to protect against those seatbacks hitting children in the backseat? quess c1 that we have safety protections p6 climate and public health. it would increase fuel economy standards each year between 2020 four and 2026, achieving a total economy of 51 miles per gallon by model year 2020 six. statutory authority requires it to be set at the maximum feasible level, language that i worked to author and pass in the energy bill. the 10% year-over-year increase produces the largest benefit thr

senator markey? >> thank you, madam chair.adam chair, i want to recognize the victims of these crashes and their families, including michael and nadia -- , who are here today, and whose daughter was tragically killed in the ethiopian airlines 737 max crash. these families are here for justice and -- in protections for ethiopian -- we thank you for being here and we thank you for standing vigil for all of those families. and we are so sorry for your tragic loss and we will make sure that your message is heard at the faa. thank you. [inaudible] >> after more than two years of investigations, it is clear that boeing abused the authority delegated to the faa to certify its own aircraft. boeing not only cut countless corners to maximize profit at the expense of safety but it also intentionally misled the faa in order to avoid more rigorous scrutiny of new technologies installed on the 737 max, including the flight control system that caused both tragic knows dies in indonesia and ethiopia. this committee's passage of the aircraft s

markey: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr.markey: i rise in support of jessica rosenworcel, president joe biden's nominee to serve as the chair of the federal communications commission. in her time on the commission, chair rosenworcel has been a tireless advocate for consumers in today's fast-changing media and digital landscape. she stands up for consumers. she stands up for competition, she stands up for children. that is what the job of chair of the federal communications commission is all about. it's standing up for all of those core principles that our country believes in. she has made it very clear that she does believe that title 2 of the communications act is something that can be and must be used in order to ensure that we give full protections to broadband users in our -- in our country now more than ever we need strong leadership at the federal communications commission. as senator cantwell was just speaking, we have 12 million to 17 million children in the united states who did not have the internet during the firs

an ancillary fees massachusetts senator ed markey's legislation.om charging disproportionate fees on things like cancellations. see changes are extra backs. does it really cost an airline $100 add one additional sue bag. of course not. the legislation also directs the department of transportation to review additional fees from airlines and ensure children can sit with their families at no additional cost. no economic justification for it. and frankly there's no moral justification. connecticut senator richard blumenthal says the unexpected fees blindside americans, especially during busy holiday travel. we are in the season of. giving and the airlines again are taking. however, some republicans are wary of the legislation's potential impacts on the airline industry and trust customers to make the right choices as consumers that make a determination of what succeeds and what fails pennsylvania congressman mike kelly says lawmakers should stay out of the way. you people have a pretty bad track record of running a successful business. >> let's not sta

markey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i want to spend a quick moment saying a fond thank you and farewell to a staff member of mine who is leaving. my deep gratitude to ashley harrington, who is off to great adventures, our sadness of her leaving is matched only by our excitement for her as she starts her next chapter. thank you for your dedication, your humor, your invaluable skills. we are going to miss thank you throughout our entire office. i come here, mr. president, today to speak in support of suffolk county district attorney rachael rollins to serve as district attorney for massachusetts. i'm saddened that i have to come to the floor to talk about this person is a testament to the partisanship of my republican colleagues. before i share more of district attorney's rollins record, the record that my colleagues have mischaracterized, i want to talk about how partisan this has become. the judiciary committee held a roll call vote on rachael rollins nomination to serve as u.s. attorney for the district of m

got further support from, as ientioned, ed markey.n they were able to press biden to develop, to agree to a climate program that was a big improvement on anything from before. even by world standards, one of the best. the management of the democratic party did not like that, was not having it. they actually cut it out of their webpage before the eleion and tried to block it. it has been reduced by them and the solid republican opposition demanding the move as quickly as possible toward disaster. well, it is now cut sharply back. you go to glasgow, lots of nice words, including from president biden. take a look at what is happening in the world outside of the halls in glasgow. a different picture. biden came home from glasgow and opened for at least the largest giveaway in u.s. history of petroleum, exploitation of energy corporations. his defense is his effort to stop it was blocked by temporary court decision. so he had no choice. actually, there were choices. there were other options. but the message that it sends stark and clear is

jonathan: markey, the disconnect between inflation and what we are seeing -- 143.60 on tents. >> it seems to me that the bond market is not looking at inflation primarily because it. also, it reflects the fact that in a risky world, people are drawn to treasury securities. they are rather attractive. lisa: even though the fed is probably going to hike rates, even though larry summers is saying we are past the peak of encountering something with more sustained inflation going forward. margaret: they have talked and talked. what they have done is basically nothing so far. looking at next year, when we should have less treasury issuance, it is almost irrelevant that they are going to cut back on purchases. the bigger impact the d last issuance last year. lisa: what is the trait here? are you buying long-term treasuries with the expectation that yield will go down? margaret: no. the equity market is of much better value than the treasury curve. 140/180 is not very attractive. they are still trapped at 1.25 for the next few months if the fed does begin to announce the tapering decision. caroli

to, that the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed, the markey amendment to the title be consider and agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding o the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: finally, ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., thursday, december 16. following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hours be deemed expired, the judge of proceedings approved to date, the time for the two leaders resolved for their use later in the day and morning business be closed. that upon the conclusion of morning business, the senate proceed to executive session, resume consideration of the gawandi nomination. further, the senate recess from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m.. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: for the information of senators, we expect to move to discharge the thomas nomination for the ninth circuit thursday, if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previ

. >> senator markey. >> thank you very much. thank you for being here and for your great work and many of my colleagues are focusing on nord stream two. >> and i want to discuss our own input our addiction to russian oil in the united states. according to the oxford institute for energy studies roughly 80% of russian oil and gas revenues come from oil, while only 20% come from natural gas. the united states imported more than 800,000 barrels of russian oil a day on average in june of 2021. and the price of that oil is skyrocketing. russia is now the united states' number two supplier of crude oil and petroleum products in 2021. we only import more oil and petroleum products from canada. most years, anywhere from one third to more than one half of russian federal revenue is a direct result of their fossil fuel exports and profits and the roughly 800,000 barrels of oil per day that americans import contribute to an estimated $20 billion annually in american dollars going directly into the pockets of russian petrol oligarchs. oil p

reporter: massachusetts democrat senator ed markey, it's cutting passengers off.lways been alcohol on planes and airports so is back to the real reason for the problems? let's go to the party panel, alexander and brad. i don't think this is a time or place for prohibition. >> totally agree. i think if you are an elected official, you might have missed stressful and airport experience can be for just your average traveler. i was on a flight recently where a guy had a complete meltdown with other passengers because he didn't get enough ice in his drink. people are under a lot of stress because when we you walk into an upper, there artificial restrictions on your freedom, some good, some bad that make you feel confined and it's a result of all the restrictions we are seeing, we are seeing people under a lot of stress and it's making them do weird things. i certainly don't condone violence or mistreatment of flight crew but it's not the way to do this. the way to do it is taste take the masks off the planes, it's a simple solution. i think it's all performance and the

senator markey? >> according to cbs news, the airline industry owes consumers up to $20 billion in refunds, which is in just and immoral. that's why senator blumenthal and i sent a letter to the airline industry's trade association yesterday, demanding that every airline provide immediate refunds for flights during the pandemic. i have made this appeal over and over again, but airlines continue to do the right thing. will you commit to providing refunds for all tickets that were canceled due to the pandemic, regardless of whether you canceled the flight or a passenger canceled in order to protect the health of a family member? will you commit to the refunding of this money? >> we refunded $3.2 billion of cash refunds in 2020 alone. >> the passengers canceled because of their justifiable concerns about the pandemic and the impact it was having. would you refund that money to passengers? >> unless someone bought a nonrefundable ticket. condition two, the flight actually flew. in that case, we did make

this is something people like me and senator markey have been pushing for months.ecause of delta. i said at the time if we didn't pass my legislation novid, no more covid legislation, that we would see delta come here, which it did. then we see omicron. we're going to see more greek lettered variants arrive as well if we don't get our act together and get other countries vaccinated right now. >> you keep talking about the need to keep schools open as a parent and citizen and somebody who follows the science and has seen what closing schools did to kids emotionally, psychologically, etcetera. i agree with you. teachers unions in chicago seem willing to strike over this issue, right? they don't want the schools to open. >> well, i think that what they want is a safe school place for both teachers and students to learn but for that to happen, again, we need to get testing into the schools. we need to get those young people vaccinated. of course we have to make sure all school teachers and staff are vaccinated. i fervently believe we must keep our schools open. we've s

an ancillary fees massachusetts senator ed markey's legislation would prohibit airlines from chargingisproportionate fees on things like cancellations. see changes are extra backs. does it really cost an airline $100 add one additional sue bag. of course not. the legislation also directs the department of transportation to review additional fees from airlines and ensure children can sit with their families at no additional cost. no economic justification for it. and frankly there's no moral justification. connecticut senator richard blumenthal says the unexpected fees blindside americans, especially during busy holiday travel. we are in the season of. giving. and the airlines again are taking. however, some republicans are wary of the legislation's potential impacts on the airline industry and trust customers to make the right choices as consumers that make a determination of what succeeds and what fails pennsylvania congressman mike kelly says lawmakers should stay out of the way. you people have a pretty bad track record of running a successful business. >> let's not start telling t

congress can pass the protection act offered by senator markey who is here today. i'm proud to be working with him on updating and expanding it. parents and children need more power and more ektive tools to protect themselves on the platform. there really should be a duty of care. united kingdom has imposed it. it's part of a law there. why not here. that ought to be part of frame work of legislation that we're considering. law enforce m has to rigorous and strong. i hope we will begin the effort of working together but one way or the other, this committee will move forward and again, i thank you for being here. i thank all of my colleagues for attending. i ask for remarks. thaing senator. >> thank you, senator bloom enthal. we are appreciative that you are here today. we're grateful for your time and for your testimony. i do want to thank senator bloomenthal and his team for the work. this is the fifth hearing we have held dealing with the issues around big tech and the lack of data security. the need for section 230 reforms. i'm frustrated because this is now the

year-old truckee man who's been missing since christmas day after skiing at the northstar resort, markey barton has much more on the search efforts underway. >> california, search and rescue teams now on day 5 in their search for 43 year-old. rory and chalabi. the expert skier and avid outdoorsman. when up north star mountain for christmas day ski run and never came home. sergeant mike powers with the placer county sheriff's office says sometimes even the best skiers get themselves into deep. a lot of the very experienced years will have a lapse in judgment that will try to do fresh powder will try to do the more between are out of bounds type area powers believes that may be what happened to and jelani who was skiing in conditions similar to this video taken from nearby heavenly mountain resort during the same snow storm that was falling when he disappeared. we have to be real estate. anybody surviving both sort of extreme conditions is extremely conditions. so bad the search had to be stopped, at least once for the safety of everyone involved. we picked it up again. >> one day and agai

massachusetts senator ed markey's legislation would prohibit airlines from charging disproportionates are extra backs. does it really cost an airline $100 add one additional sue bag. of course not. the legislation also directs the department of transportation to review additional fees from airlines and ensure children can sit with their families at no additional cost. no economic justification for it. and frankly there's no moral justification. connecticut senator richard blumenthal says the unexpected fees blindside americans, especially during busy holiday travel. we are in the season of. giving and the airlines again are taking. however, some republicans are wary of the legislation's potential impacts on the airline industry and trust customers to make the right choices as consumers that make a determination of what succeeds and what fails pennsylvania congressman mike kelly says lawmakers should stay out of the way. you people have a pretty bad track record of running a successful business. >> let's not start telling the private sector. what they have to do reporting in washingto

markey. mr. peters. ms. baldwin. ms. duckworth. mr. tester. ms. sinema. ms. rosen. mr. lujan. mr. hickenlooper. mr. warnock. mr. wicker, no. mr. thune, no by proxy. mr. blunt. no. mr. cruz, by proxy. miss fisher, mr. moran, no by proxy. mr. sullivan, no by sullivan, mrs. blackburn. mr. young. >> no by proxy. >> mr. lee, >> by proxy. mr. johnson. mrs. capito. mr. scott. miss lummis. miss cantwell. aye. >> thee are 14 the noes 14. the commit will report the tie vote to the floor of the senate. that conclude our markup for this morning. so we'll now turn to hearing -- again thank our colleagues for their attendance today. thank you for helping us get these important nominations filled. we look forward to working with all of them. now we will turn to our hearing this morning. our hearing is a very important set of nominees. i want to welcome them and their families to the dais. thank you so much for being here. first we will consider the nomination of gigi sohn to be commissioner of the federal communications commission. welcome to you and your family who i understand is joining you t

just a moment ago with senator markey, you were asked what are the democratic talking points which number the vast majority of the pipeline was completed under donald trump. yes,ar that happens to be true. itbe was completed before the sanctions passed and i also do legislations along with senator shaheen. the sanctions legislation passed hein december of 2019.on december of 2019 over 90% of the pipeline was completed. and what happened, putin stopped building the pipeline the day president trump signed that into law. the sanctions worked exactly as designed and for over a year, nothing happened. january 204th, 2021 is when putin began building the pipeline again. so we've succeeded with a bipartisan victory stopping the pipeline until they came into office and gave away the leverage and surrender. he didn't wake up and decided he wanted to invade ukraine. in 2014 he invaded ukraine and crimea but he didn't go all the way to one of the major reasons why is because of the ukrainian energy infrastructure that he couldn't risk damaging or destroying the ability to get the russian gas to euro

things have changed since ed markey wrote the bill back in 1998.f the pieces of the bill that is actually important that has not come that may be left out or include an part of some of the reform bills is the self-regulatory environment of having ftc complaint entities being certified. the reason that we supported that in the past and why we like it was it was to help parents. it was to help parents to know that if the kids are going out of sight that was for 12 and under, that there were some mechanism like a good goodd housekeeping seal of approval because we were concerned, a a lack of resources at the ftc they can't investigate everybody. we thought we could help put together a mechanism that would say you have a certification program you go through, that certification program and that company can be certified by the federal trade commission and would help provide parents with information that the sites they were going to have kids on whidbey coppa compliant. there have been some bad actors in recently one of those bad actors got booted from th

. >> thank you, senator markey. >> thank you, mr. chairman. to you, ambassador nichols. just want to talk about following up on senator booker's questioning on haiti, i just want to make sure the actions that were taken in haiti aren't solidifying opportunist over the interest of the haitian people and i saw you met with representatives of the montana group of haitian citizens and civil society leaders in late september. what were your takeaways from the meeting in terms of how the united states should move forward with an inclusive haitian led focus policy. >> my number one take away, number one the importance of security we need better security to get the free and fair elections in haiti and were a long way away from that. the role of civil society in the broadest construct private sector, nongovernmental organization is vital. bringing together a broad set of actors to agree on a way forward without an artificially imposed timeline from the national community is also vital. those would be my main takeaways. >> i urge you to continue to reach out to the civil society l

. >> to senator markey's point there was the repeal of the nda authority at what point would you take >> if we saw they were not meeting our expectations on a consistent basis, or if we saw anything in the safety management system not making the necessary cultural or transparency improvements , then we would go down that path at some point. >> we will have our own report of what we have been don't told by whistleblowers it's clear the process has changed with collaboration and solving problems has now changed with the faa not even and asking those unit members to produce documentation about testing does that comply? yes or no? we have to build a workforce there are early warning systems when something is wrong and you have to back them up. i don't see the workforce and improvement he sle office that you are describing we are a total of 52 people 32 of which are engineers. i don't think that has changed much. so since the accident have you improved the seattle oversight office? >> i will get you the current numbers. we have increased our resources. and i know because we have sat down w

we are waiting for senator markey who is under the weather. it is not covid but he should be walking in the door any minute. anybody else? >> mr. chairman? >> yes please. >> mr. chairman, and mr. johnson as well, i am going to be -- in case some people leave before we get to the second part of the program -- we have a great article here by andrew wheeler. >> that is a familiar name. >> i'm sorry? . >> familiar name. i think he used to work for him as i recall. [laughter] >> yes. the article i am going to submit be part of the record is a very long article. i don't think andrew wheeler has ever written a short article but it is thorough and one that i think deserves the attention of everyone on the committee and onto panel. >> without objection. any other comments? any other comments? the man of the hour. welcome. i called him last night and he was in bad shape. i am delighted he is here today. let's begin with the presidential nominees they will vote on today. presidential nomination 540. five moved forward -- i moved forward. >> second. >> th

senator markey, i don't know if you're ready to go now, but thank you for the indulgence with our colleagues your leadership on capra and works getting the staff up to speed drive today as opposed to the other way around. >> [laughter] thank you very much. we are in a crisis. children are being targeted as we sit here right now by hundreds of companies that just do not care about kids or their privacy. that should be the one thing we all agree upon. children should not be allowed to be prayed upon. here are the numbers. it is frightening. children's time on their devices has doubled over the last year. doubled over the last year. a study of internet use found a 100 and 44% increase in a number of messages that children sent and received online in 2020 versus 2019. one year. today, 70% of parents estimate their children spend at least four hours with screens every single day. to each of you, please, yes or no. if we cannot pass a bill that protects adults privacy, should we ensure that we pass a bill that protects children's privacies in this congress? yes or no? x yes. -- >> yes. >> i point