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Comment by Bill Hagerty

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U.S. Senator (R‑Tennessee)
Congress and the Biden Administration should not engage in heavy-handed regulation with uncertain impacts
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AI Verified ai_verified. The Sept. 28, 2023 Senate press release at the cited URL attributes a longer statement to Sen. Bill Hagerty that includes this exact contiguous wording: it says, “My point is that Congress and the Biden Administration should not engage in heavy-handed regulation with uncertain impacts ...” The submitted quote is therefore a verbatim excerpt of Hagerty’s statement, correctly attributed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 28d ago
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