{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-gallego-calls-for-senate-committee-to-rein-in-ai-celebrates-supreme-courts-mail-in-voting-decision/", "WATCH: Gallego Calls for Senate Committee to Rein-in AI, Celebrates Supreme Court\u2019s Mail-in Voting Decision", "2026-09-15", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Ruben Gallego", "G000574", "www.gallego.senate.gov", "gallego", "https://www.gallego.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, on MSNOW\u2019s \u201cThe Weeknight,\u201d Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) echoed his call to establish a bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to rein-in the technology \u2014 largely in response to a former Anthropic researcher quitting his role and warning of an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves and, in turn, destroy humanity \u2014 and applauded the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Trump\u2019s executive order restricting vote-by-mail ahead of the midterm elections.\n\nWATCH: MS NOW\u2019s The Weeknight\n\nOn getting all stakeholders together to regulate AI: \u201cWe need experts to come in and talk to us\u2014the people who are skeptics, the people who want to regulate, and the people who have a vision for AI. The problem that we have right now is that we don\u2019t know enough\u2026 We need to be bringing the best minds around us and figure out how to put up guardrails, and how to do it quickly.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m glad that they [the AI companies] are coming out, but can we really trust people that have an interest, a very corporate\u2014corporate interest for them, for whatever outcome, right? They have to respond to corporate shareholders. We have to respond to the American public, right? I have to make sure that whatever outcome that we decide to put together for these guardrails aren\u2019t designed basically to cover their asses for whatever they mess up later, right?\n\nOn the first steps a Senate Select Committee would take: \u201cThe first thing we would fix is: get the people around you, besides those three [Musk, Dario, Altman], to give you the information you need to know how bad this is and where this is going.\n\n\u201cStep two is: Are we looking too small? You know, this is going to have to end up being an international agreement, right? Where we have to talk to not just China, the European Union, other friends and allies, to make sure that we all are staying together on this. Because if there\u2019s any type of leakage, if any types of these agents go rogue, they\u2019re not going to care if this was created in China. They will go after the United States and go after China later, or at the same time.\u201d\n\nOn President Trump dismissing concerns over AI: \u201cThis is why I\u2019m very much in favor of putting a commission together that is akin to the 9/11 Commission to come up with the recommendations that we need, to put into text and move fast. And if their president doesn\u2019t want to vote for this, then we have the votes to override that president because it is bad.\n\n\u201cThe voter is really scared about what\u2019s happening right now. They\u2019re scared that their jobs are going to be taken, that their lives are going to be taken. What we understand is humanity could be totally gone within a couple of years.\u201d\n\nOn the victory in the Supreme Court over mail-in voting decision: \u201cThat\u2019s good for the voters. And look, Arizona\u201480% of voters in Arizona vote by mail. The vote-by-mail system was started by Republicans. It\u2019s safe. It\u2019s secure. We don\u2019t need last-minute chaos going into an election that\u2019s less than 60 days away.\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s continue moving forward. The Postal Service is there to deliver mail. They\u2019re not there to decide who can get ballots or not. That\u2019s the job of the secretaries of state.\u201d", 1, "2026-09-16T09:43:13Z", "2026-09-16T09:44:22Z"]], "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://www.gallego.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-gallego-calls-for-senate-committee-to-rein-in-ai-celebrates-supreme-courts-mail-in-voting-decision/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.330775674432516, "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"}