Thank you so much.
There's a lot of misinformation and disinformation coming from the tech giants through their intermediaries. We're addressing that here.
Who are we looking to protect here? We've already heard from one witness who acknowledged being an unregistered lobbyist, and that's what we're looking to protect. We're not looking at people who have engaged in friendly disagreements with the government. We're looking at people who have engaged in potential violations of the Lobbying Act, and that's what Mrs. Thomas's amendment is looking to protect.
This entire study is based on shady practices by Google and Facebook around the world. We're going to say, well, let's not look beyond the four walls of Google headquarters, where they've entered into communications potentially—maybe they haven't—with other individuals. That's the nature of it, and that's what we're looking for.