Pete Sessions

Two House lawmakers want to give the AbilityOne program a makeover.

Maryland's Congressman Steny Hoyer and Texas' Pete Sessions' American Procurement Improvement Act would modernize the statutory framework governing AbilityOne.

The legislation would expand eligibility and help more Americans with disabilities get hired, promoted, and grow in their careers.

It would speed up the timeline to add new products and services to the list maintained by the AbilityOne commission.

Six of them are Republicans.

They are Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Ken Calvert of California, Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, Hal Rogers of Kentucky, Chris Smith of New Jersey, and Pete Sessions of Texas.

And there are 14 Democrats who voted for the Patriot Act and are still in the House.

They are Sanford Bishop of Georgia, James Clyburn of South Carolina, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Rick Larson of Washington, Zoe Lofgren of California, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, Gregory Meeks of New York, Richie Neal of Massachusetts, Frank Pallone of New Jersey, Brad Sherman of California, Mike Simpson of Idaho, Adam Smith of Washington, and Mike Thompson of California.

And so this is, but we'll have opportunities to bring it up.

The second thing that actually my partner in this, is Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas with whom I agree with almost nothing, that we believe that one of the biggest problems here is the AI deepfake impersonation, the identity fraud that this technology is available.

You can have someone impersonate your voice, even impersonate your video, in ways that a normal casual human cannot detect the difference between the AI fake and the real thing.

And that has already caused many millions of dollars to be stolen from very sophisticated financial firms.

And the third thing is the ability of the device to recognize its owner.

You combine all those, and that's the ability to prove you are a single legally traceable person, even in an online interaction.

And my partner in that is Pete Sessions, and we're trying to get money to states to actually implement digital driver's licenses.

A number of states, including Illinois, are implementing them.

I would not have done that, and I'm sorry he did.

Republican Congressman Pete Sessions was on CNN.

This seems to be something that I would not condone at all.

The backlash on the national stage has also seen longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove say that he'll support French's political opponent John Rosenthal in November.

They've gotta be responsible, uh, on their own side

sideJoining us now to discuss, Republican Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas.

He introduced a bipartisan bill to require federal disclosures of AI-generated content.

So Congressman, President Trump today called the big AI concerns a hoax, while Speaker Johnson says that it is worth a White House tech leaders summit.

Uh, I don't know whether he has recanted or given more views, uh, on, on this himself, but I assume that he should be given that opportunity also.

I think mistakes can be made a lot, but this seems to be, uh, something that I, I would not, uh, condone at all.

Republican Congressman Pete Sessions of the great state of Texas, thank you, sir.

Appreciate your time.

Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord.

I want to bring in Texas Congressman Pete Sessions.

Congressman, will the 9-11 files, if released, open a can of worms? I mean, there are a lot of people who still don't believe, still believe, 9-11 was an inside job.

There are a lot of people that still believe all kinds of things.

interesting so the insurers are basically self-reporting how sick their patients are and then getting paid based on the report who and why did we ever set it up that way in the first place

So, look, I wrote a bill with Pete Sessions from Texas, and we actually even use the health assessment risk score as a part of our bill because it is this kind of amazing thing where you can, in a free market, you could have people move from one plan to the other.

And so it's actually used so that there's no disincentive, so that the insurance... insurance companies will take the healthy and they'll take the sick because if you're sick, the insurance companies wouldn't want you, right? You cost more money.

But the government uses this score so that there's no adverse selection so that the insurance companies will take everybody.