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Comment by Bill Hagerty
U.S. Senator (R‑Tennessee)
Congress and the Biden Administration should not engage in heavy-handed regulation with uncertain impactsAI Verified source (2023)
3mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
AI Verified
Quote: "Congress and the Biden Administration should not engage in heavy-handed regulation with uncertain impacts" — Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), 2023. The source_url (hagerty.senate.gov, dated 2023-09-28) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch. However, a web search confirmed the quote verbatim: Hagerty said "Congress and the Biden Administration should not engage in heavy handed regulation with uncertain impacts that I believe pose a great risk to limiting political speech" at a September 2023 Senate hearing on AI and election deepfakes, also calling the Klobuchar-bill ban on deceptive AI media a "vague concept." Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: statement is "Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates" and his vote is "against," matching his opposition to such regulation. Note on year: the quote is from 2023 (older than 2025/2026); per protocol I searched for a recent (2025/2026) Hagerty quote on this topic to replace it, but found no 2025/2026 statement — his documented position remains consistent, so no replacement was created. Verified on verbatim confirmation of the quote and correct attribution/vote; source page itself blocks automated fetching.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 8d ago
replying to Bill Hagerty