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Will Hurd

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 19, 1977

A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive.

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As a member of Congress who represents one of the few true swing districts in the country, I have always tried to engage groups of people who don't necessarily agree with all my votes or opinions.

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If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

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We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

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Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories - Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.

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Before I was elected to represent southwestern Texas in the U.S. Congress, I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I served in places where Russia has geopolitical interests, and learned that Russia has one simple goal: to erode trust in democratic institutions.

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The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

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When Congress and the general public disagree simply along party lines, the Russians are winning.

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The government should urgently speed its adoption of AI to reduce the amount of time individuals spend unnecessarily interacting with the government and increase the speed of government response to citizens.

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Documenting and recording paperwork, managing services like passport renewals, and processing patent applications are practices that could all be dramatically improved with robotic automation.

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While introducing AI into the government will save money through optimizing processes, it should also be deployed to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

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America has become an exceptional nation not because of what we have taken, but because of what we have given.

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As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.

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Strengthening our position so that countries can purchase their energy from us and not our adversaries moves us a step closer to a very important goal - North American energy security.

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Innovation by American energy companies has led to a glut of the lighter forms of crude oil found in U.S. shale basins such as Eagle Ford, Barnett and Permian Basin.

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Sentiments of hate toward one another still permeate today's world, and there is still much work to be done to heal the divisions of racial prejudice.

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As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.

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All Americans should be concerned about the potential for China to replace the United States as the most important economy in the world.

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To ensure that the free world continues to set the rules of the road in the global economy, America and its allies must work together to continue to be the world's centers of innovation and technological advancement.

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To continue to be the world leader in innovation, we have to retrain and 'reskill' our workforce over time and prepare our kids for jobs that don't even exist today.

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