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Suzan DelBene had a long career in technology before coming to Congress. The Washington state Democrat served as CEO and president of Nimble Technology, a business software company, and spent 12 years at Microsoft.

“Updating our laws to reflect the way the world works in the 21st century has been one of my top priorities in Congress,” she says. “When current law affords more protections for a letter in a filing cabinet than an email on a server, it’s clear our policies are woefully outdated.”

That’s why she is working on bills that would update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. One of them, the Email Privacy Act, “is an overdue step forward for protecting Americans’ civil liberties in the digital age and I’m glad to see the House act so quickly this year in passing it,” she said. “Now it’s up to the Senate to act and ensure Americans are guaranteed the privacy protections most think they already have.”

She also helped introduce the Computer Science for All Act, to increase K-12 computer science education funding.

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