Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) spoke with Cheddar about sexual assault allegations against his Democratic colleague Senator Al Franken. He said he supports and investigation by the Ethics Committee into the incident.
Moments after the House Republicans passed its version of a tax reform bill, the Michigan Senator gave us his thoughts on the plan. He worries about the debt younger generations will inherit if the House or Senate versions of the bill make it to President Trump's desk.
Senator Peters also believes the autonomous vehicles will cause a technology revolution, similar to the assembly line. He is working on legislation to advance testing and development of self-driving car.
Approximately 5 million people buy fake tickets every year from unofficial sources. Ticketmaster and the NFL want to combat that problem with a new digital ecosystem, says Greg Economou, Head of Sports for Ticketmaster North America.
The Congresswoman admitted that changes won't come in time for the midterm elections in November. But the question is no longer whether social media be regulated but what that regulation should look like, says Dingell. She says European laws serve as good models. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces a House committee Wednesday for a second round of questioning on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Congresswoman Diana DeGette, who is on the House committee that will question Mark Zuckerberg tomorrow, says perhaps harsher penalties will force companies to do more before breaches occur.
When women have more money, they tend to put more of it back into their communities, families, and non-profits, says Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-founder of Ellevest, a female-focused investment platform. "Try to think about something that's good for women and bad for men. It's very hard to."
Democrats have already signaled that they're going to focus more on election interference and be "a little bit more aggressive than Republicans" during Mark Zuckerberg's testimonies this week, says Ali Breland, technology and politics reporter at The Hill. The Facebook CEO will appear before Congress Tuesday and Wednesday to face questions about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Facebook CEO's hearings on Capitol Hill will likely dominate headlines for days. If those stories focus more on the new initiatives that the social network has recently rolled out, rather than the data scandal itself, "that would be a big win," says Aaron Pressman, Senior Technology Reporter at Fortune Magazine.
Washington won't easily forgive Facebook for sending a "low-level" deputy to testify when Congress first wanted answers about Russia's role in the 2016 election. And legislators are likely to take out their frustration on the CEO when he appears before them next week, says Ken Gude, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
If the stock had surged too high, "it would be hard to grow into that valuation over time," says Pär-Jörgen Pärson, partner at European venture capital firm Northzone, a Spotify investor since 2008.
West Virginia is the first state to test out voting via blockchain, collaborating with venture capitalist Bradley Tusk. "[People] want to vote the same way that they order something from Amazon," says Mac Warner, WV's Secretary of State. The experiment has rolled out for deployed military voters in some counties, with plans to deploy it across the state for the midterm elections in November.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's handling of user data was a "huge mistake" and that the company failed to take "a broad enough view of what our responsibility was" to its more than 2 billion users.
