{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-lawler-push-bipartisan-plan-on-ai-safety", "RELEASE: Gottheimer, Lawler Push Bipartisan Plan on AI Safety", "2026-09-21", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "NJ", "Josh Gottheimer", "G000583", "gottheimer.house.gov", "gottheimer", "https://gottheimer.house.gov/press", "scraper", "Above: Gottheimer and Lawler discuss their bipartisan AI legislation.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Mike Lawler (NY-17) held a press conference to amplify the importance of their bipartisan Stop Rogue AI Act, legislation that would establish clear, practical guardrails for the powerful new AI \u201cagents\u201d now operating inside America\u2019s networks. This commonsense legislation ensures that businesses and agencies have the ability to see and stop rogue agents before they cause real damage. The Representatives also highlighted several other bipartisan actions they\u2019ve led this Congress on AI \u2014 including legislation to protect consumers, develop America\u2019s workforce, and boost innovation.\n\nWatch Gottheimer and Lawler\u2019s remarks here.\n\n\u201cYou can\u2019t drive a car in this country without a license plate, without insurance, without some way for a cop \u2014 or the person you just rear-ended \u2014 to know who\u2019s behind the wheel and who\u2019s responsible,\u201d said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Co-Chair of the House Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the Innovation Economy. \u201cAI agents right now don\u2019t have any of that. Our bill puts a driver\u2019s license on every AI agent operating in this country \u2014 so organizations can find every agent on their network, verify who built it, watch it in real time, and cut off its access the second something looks wrong. That means putting humans back in the driver\u2019s seat. It\u2019s time for Congress to get back to work and get this done.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t about stopping AI or stifling innovation. It is about making sure we can safely deploy AI. A pause is not a safeguard. Some states have put a moratorium on the infrastructure that powers this technology. That does not invent a kill switch. It does not inventory the agents already on a hospital network or a utility system,\u201d said Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17.) \u201cIf the United States taps the brakes while others floor it, we do not get safer AI. We get someone else\u2019s AI. We are not going to regulate ourselves into second place.\u201d\n\nRight now, most organizations have no reliable way to know how many unauthorized AI agents are running in their systems, who built them, or what they have access to. AI agents can be activated by employees, embedded in third-party software, or deployed by vendors \u2014 often with little to no visibility for the organization whose networks they\u2019re operating on to know that they are there. That blind spot is becoming more dangerous by the day. The recent Hugging Face incident and other autonomous cyberattacks have shown AI systems are being used to hack organizations at scale, without a person ever watching or stepping in.\n\nDrafted and introduced by Gottheimer and Lawler, the Stop Rogue AI Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop national standards, guidelines, and best practices for discovering, verifying, monitoring, and controlling AI agents.\n\nOther Bipartisan AI Initiatives from Gottheimer and Lawler include:\n\nAI Workforce Training Act (H.R. 7576) \u2014 Helps workers upgrade their AI skills without leaving their jobs. More than 60% of small businesses now use AI \u2014 double the share from 2023 \u2014 and the challenge isn\u2019t that AI is replacing workers, it\u2019s that workers need help keeping up with the tools their employers are already using. The bill provides a 30% tax credit, capped at $2,500 per employee, for training in practical AI skills. The goal: help workers adapt to AI, not get replaced by it.\n\nAdvancing American Quantum Leadership Act of 2026 (H.R. 9585) \u2014 Expands the definition of \u201cquantum\u201d under the Export-Import Bank\u2019s China and Transformational Exports Program, broadening \u201cquantum computing\u201d to \u201cquantum information science and technology.\u201d\n\nNo Rigged Grocery Prices Act (H.R. 8895) \u2014 Bans grocery stores and delivery apps from using AI-driven personal data to charge different customers different prices for the exact same item.\n\nThe two members have also pressed the administration and industry on AI accountability \u2014 urging the Federal Trade Commission to protect anti-discrimination measures for AI systems; calling on the CEOs of leading AI companies to ensure voters get accurate, unbiased information ahead of the 2026 midterms; and urging DHS, DOJ, CISA, and the FEC to coordinate against AI-related threats to the 2026 elections.\n\nBelow: Gottheimer and Lawler discuss their AI legislation.", 1, "2026-09-22T09:42:49Z", "2026-09-22T09:44:35Z"]], "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://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-lawler-push-bipartisan-plan-on-ai-safety"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 41.55072057619691, "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"}