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Peter Welch: “Privacy, both sides are now seeing that we can't just leave…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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DC2U interview with Rep. Peter Welch

Published | Video Starts at 07:13

And my experience here is that one of the biggest challenges is getting the issue you're concerned about on the table for debate. Once you're debating it, there's some prospect for a resolution to move forward. And I think Privacy, both sides are now seeing that we can't just leave it up to Google and Facebook. Right. You mentioned two other things in going through the priorities. One is the stellar reauthorization, the reauthorization of the satellite bill, which happens every five years. (07:13–07:19)

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Asserts that there is bipartisan recognition of the need for privacy regulation beyond tech companies.

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