As Congress returns from recess, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is pressing his colleagues to confront one of the defining governance questions of the era: whether democratic institutions can move fast enough to shape a technology that is already reshaping them. The debate unfolding on Capitol Hill is not merely procedural — it is a reckoning with the gap between the speed of innovation and the slower, deliberative rhythms of lawmaking. How a society chooses to govern transformative power, or chooses not to, is itself a consequential act.