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Hey everybody, it's Anna Palmer from The Daily Punch.

You are listening to the second edition of our special edition podcast, The Future of Cybersecurity. This month, we're going deep on the future of cybersecurity just in time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Did you get that? Cybersecurity. I'm going to be joined by senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio, who's leading our efforts on this project.

A big thank you to Google for making this podcast and product possible.

In today's edition, we're going to be digging deeper into the legislative landscape when it comes to cybersecurity.

Andrew, welcome.

Hey, Anna. Thanks for having me.

All right, let's get to it.

The government shutdown has certainly been taking up a lot of space in our world,

and we may be looking at another possible shutdown November 17th.

So there hasn't been a lot of talk about bipartisanship.

But I want to set the stature because one of the things that I thought was most interesting about this project and the second installment here is this isn't just Republicans

all on one side of the field and Democrats on the other side of the field. There actually has been

some real work to kind of cross party lines here. Yeah, I would call it strange bedfellows in many ways. One of the

most prominent, I would say, frameworks for tackling artificial intelligence, for example,

is from senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley. They couldn't be more different. They both

serve on the judiciary committee together. They've butted head so many times. But they

agree on an approach to regulating

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