2024 OH Senate race: on Technology

Sherrod Brown: Export controls: deny China access to U.S. technology

Addressing these threats from the Chinese government, and improving our domestic capability to compete with China, have been a top priority of this Committee. Five years ago, we updated the laws that govern our export control and inbound investment screening programs. Export controls can be used to deny China and others access to U.S. technology that they could use to undermine our national security. We have made export controls a central feature of our national security and foreign policy.

Bernie Moreno: Innovative companies could disrupt current tech monopolies

A: When he was fourteen years old, Bernie Moreno knew that he loved cars. He knew that he wanted to work with cars. So, he wrote a letter to the president of General Motors with suggestions for how to improve the company. The president of the company was so impressed with the ideas and the nerve of this teenager, that he actually wrote back. A few years later, Bernie Moreno became an intern. He worked his way up the ladder. Many years later, he would become one of the most successful car dealers in the United States of America–based right here in Ohio. Using his success in the car industry, Bernie Moreno became a leader in innovative companies that could help disrupt current tech monopolies. He also invested heavily in the community–hospitals, schools, and small businesses.