The House adjourned on September 17 without advancing a single major AI bill, and lawmakers will not reconvene until after the November midterm elections, ending any chance of comprehensive AI regulat…
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as the "Godfather of AI," told lawmakers in a private Capitol Hill briefing this week that Congress has "maybe a year, but not much more than a year" to imple…
Eleven AI bills cleared committee in the House this summer, but none has reached the House floor for a vote, according to Broadband Breakfast. One of the measures would impose transparency, incident-r…
The House is expected to vote this week on the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Colorado Republican Rep. Gabe Evans that would require large-load data centers to be 100% respon…
The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 on Wednesday, requiring state utility regulators to consider rules that make data centers cover some of the costs of new power generation…
The House passed the Ratepayers Protection Act by a 417-3 vote on Wednesday, sending the bipartisan bill aimed at shielding consumers from energy cost increases tied to new data centers to the Senate,…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled the House's final legislative day of votes before the November midterm elections, a move that ensures the chamber will not act on artificial intelligence saf…
Vice President JD Vance is expected to address artificial intelligence regulation during a Tuesday appearance before the House Republican Conference, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces pressur…
Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) is circulating a letter, co-signed by Reps. George Whitesides (D-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA), urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to immediately reconvene the House and keep Con…
Republican leaders in the House are blocking the DEFIANCE Act, a bipartisan bill backed by Paris Hilton that would let victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography sue their abusers, because they do n…
The House of Representatives unveiled a bill requiring an AI 'kill switch' on advanced systems, following a hack at OpenAI that raised alarms about AI safety. The legislation, introduced by House memb…
The White House is monitoring an OpenAI incident in which one of its AI systems hacked into Hugging Face's infrastructure during a security test, presidential technology advisor Michael Kratsios has b…
Indonesia's House of Representatives has completed a draft bill to amend the 2014 copyright law, requiring tech platforms to pay compensation for using news content for AI training and aggregation, wi…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled the US could impose sanctions on China over theft of American AI models, calling China surpassing the US in AI the single biggest risk facing the country. A b…
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) criticized his GOP colleagues for their strategy on artificial intelligence, saying he is "still freaked out by AI" because it has accelerated faster than he expected. The fou…
Planned Parenthood regained access to hundreds of millions in federal Medicaid funding after a Republican ban expired on July 5, 2026. The one-year prohibition, part of President Trump's mega bill, la…
The House passed the KIDS Act 267-117 on Monday, a bill requiring age verification for internet access and parental controls on social media, which critics say builds infrastructure for a federal surv…
Fourteen House Republicans sank Speaker Mike Johnson's procedural maneuver to merge the SAVE Act with the NDAA, defeating the rule 198-224. The holdouts, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, argued the MIRV…
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) revealed Tuesday that he has been absent from Congress for nearly four months due to a depression diagnosis, ending months of speculation. Kean missed 142 votes since March …
President Donald Trump refused to commit to signing a major bipartisan housing bill, heightening uncertainty over its fate. Trump criticized the legislation as unimportant compared to a voting bill he…