{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-calls-house-republicans-keep-congress-washington-dc-regulate-ai", "Deluzio Calls for House Republicans to Keep Congress in Washington, D.C. to Regulate AI Superintelligence", "2026-09-16", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Christopher R. Deluzio", "D000530", "deluzio.house.gov", "deluzio", "https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) joined more than 100 members of Congress in calling for Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to keep the U.S. House of Representatives in session and working at the nation\u2019s Capitol until Congress advances a bill with significant AI safeguards.\n\nWithout this extension, members of the House are scheduled to leave this week and not return until Monday, November 9\u2014an absence of more than 50 days while AI industry leaders and researchers themselves sound the alarm to slow down the development of AI superintelligence. With AI superintelligence advancing so quickly, the landscape of this technology could change vastly over more than 50 days of congressional inaction.\n\n\u201cPennsylvanians send me down to Washington to pass laws to make life better for all of us,\u201d said Congressman Deluzio. \u201cRight now, the American people are screaming at Congress to do something about a technology that they\u2019re hearing may eliminate their jobs, upend their lives, or even wipe out humanity\u2014but House Republican leadership has their ears plugged. We need national action and global coordination under America\u2019s leadership on superintelligence. Everyone seems to want AI safety\u2014except our government\u2019s Republican leaders. This is an emergency. We should act like it.\u201d\n\nCongressman Deluzio and his colleagues write in their letter, \u201cA series of proposals have emerged from our colleagues that deserve consideration, public debate, thoughtful amendment, and action. They include bills mandating transparency and evaluation of frontier models, \u2018kill switch\u2019 requirements, and a waiver of antitrust laws to enable critical industry-wide collaboration on safety and security. Whether with these proposals or any other variants, AI experts and leading companies agree that the United States can lead the world in artificial intelligence while establishing reasonable safeguards that protect Americans and our national security. We can\u2014and must\u2014do both.\u201d\n\n\u201cTo our children who will have read a post-apocalyptic history, 'Why Congress Slept' \u2014 likely written by agentic AI \u2014 our inaction will be inexplicable, and unforgivable,\u201d they conclude.\n\nThe full text of the letter is available HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-17T09:52:05Z", "2026-09-17T09:53:00Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-calls-house-republicans-keep-congress-washington-dc-regulate-ai"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7482226938009262, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}