Overview
A member of Congress can sit through a Top Secret briefing without passing the background investigation ordinarily required of the contractor whose work is being discussed. Congress wrote that exemption into law. Jensen Huang’s case took me back to my years at Brookhaven and led me to ask why the vetting standard changes depending on who’s in the room. I invite you to review the proposed **Congressional Security Clearance Act** in the appendix. It would require the same vetting for comparable access and give any lawmaker the right to challenge a denial in open court. A clearance decision would govern access to classified information. The voters would still decide who represents them.