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Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), a member of the Oversight and Reform panel, is developing legislation he plans to introduce before the year’s end, Eric Harris, Gomez’s communications director, said in an email. The measure would set a moratorium on the technology until a national standard and certification process is established, Harris said.
Democratic bills (H.R. 7356 and S. 4084) introduced in June by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) aim to ban government use of facial recognition technology. But movement this year is unlikely given the waning congressional schedule.