Rick Perkins at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, witnesses.

I'm going to start at a fairly high level, because we have the world leaders in AI before us today.

It's a pretty special committee meeting among a whole series of special meetings we've had on this bill, but we have Amazon, Google, Meta-Facebook and Microsoft before us. You guys are the world leaders and are putting the most money in everywhere.

This bill was tabled almost two years ago. Just give a yes or no: Were any of your companies consulted on this bill before the bill was tabled?

Please go one at a time.