Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland.

Regulation always lags technology, but by 80-plus years.

In this episode of the pod, Sonal and I sit down with U.S. representatives Fred U.S.

U.S. Representatives, Fred U.S. and Greg Walden, to discuss the Telecommunications Act,

originally passed in 1934 and revised in 1996. And we also talk about what government can do

to help or hurt innovation. Both men sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton is the

overall chairman and Walden chairs the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

In this segment of the pod, we also dig into healthcare and the 21st century Cures Act,

which the House recently passed in a rare bipartisan vote.

What are the implications of the act for patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers

looking for the next breakthrough in medicine?

Chairman Upton, Chairman Walden, welcome to the A16Z podcast.

Maybe we can start by you guys giving us a quick summary of what you oversee in the Energy

and Commerce Committee.

First of all, you got to call us Fred and Greg.

Oh, Greg.

Yeah, we're members of Congress.

We serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

We're from Greg's from Oregon.

I'm from Michigan.

But the Energy and Commerce Committee, of which I'm the chairman of the overall

committee, really has jurisdiction over lots of things.

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