{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-gabe-evans-open-source-ai-leadership-act-passes-energy-commerce", "Rep. Gabe Evans\u2019 Open-Source AI Leadership Act Passes Energy & Commerce Subcommittee", "2026-09-01", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Gabe Evans", "E000300", "gabeevans.house.gov", "gabeevans", "https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Today, Congressman Gabe Evans\u2019 Open-Source AI Leadership Act passed the the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, advancing the legislation for consideration by the full Committee.\n\nRep. Evans introduced the legislation to strengthen America\u2019s leadership in open-source artificial intelligence as the United States competes with China for technological dominance \u2014 in addition to encouraging commonsense guardrails on this technology to protect consumers. The bill directs the Department of Commerce to support the adoption and use of American open AI models by identifying barriers, coordinating with American companies and startups, and developing policies that help U.S. innovation compete at home and around the world.\n\nThe legislation also takes aim at the growing national security and economic risks posed by AI models developed by foreign adversaries. It requires the Commerce Department to assess risks involving Americans\u2019 personal and proprietary information, supply-chain security, model accuracy and censorship, safeguards against misuse, and threats involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or other national security capabilities.\n\nIf enacted, the Commerce Department will publicly report its findings and compare the adoption, cost, capabilities, and performance of foreign adversary models with qualified American open models.\n\n\u201cThe race for AI leadership is a race America cannot afford to lose. Communist China is working every day to outcompete us, steal American innovation, and expand its technological influence around the world. We should be making it easier for our nation's innovators and startups to build, compete, and lead. This bill helps unleash American open-source AI while implementing common sense consumer protections. It also creates safeguard to identify and counter national security threats from foreign adversaries. America built the technologies that changed the world, and we\u2019re going to keep leading.\u201d \u2013\u2013 Congressman Gabe Evans\n\nThe Open-Source AI Leadership Act will:\n\nSupport American open-source AI by identifying and addressing barriers that prevent U.S.-developed models from being adopted and used.\n\nConnect government with American innovators, including startups, to strengthen adoption of U.S. open AI models.\n\nExpose risks from foreign adversary AI, including threats to Americans\u2019 data, cybersecurity, supply chains, national security, and economic security.\n\nIncrease transparency by requiring public assessments of leading foreign adversary AI models and comparisons with American alternatives.\n\nThe legislation defines qualified open models as those developed and made available by U.S. persons and excludes models developed or made available by covered nations or entities controlled by them.", 1, "2026-09-02T09:19:58Z", "2026-09-02T09:20:51Z"]], "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://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-gabe-evans-open-source-ai-leadership-act-passes-energy-commerce"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7523029819130898, "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"}