{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/watch-on-senate-floor-kelly-calls-for-urgent-action-on-ai-announces-new-make-ai-work-for-americans-act/", "WATCH: On Senate Floor, Kelly\u00a0Calls for Urgent Action on AI, Announces New\u00a0Make AI Work for Americans Act", "2026-09-22", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Mark Kelly", "K000377", "www.kelly.senate.gov", "markkelly", "https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThe alarms are sounding. The signals are clear. No one else is coming to the rescue. Mr. President, it has to be us.\u201d\n\nToday, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly took to the Senate floor to call on Congress to address the growing challenge of AI and to announce the introduction of the Make AI Work for Americans Act, landmark legislation designed to make sure Big Tech pays their fair share and invests in the American workforce.\n\nSen. Kelly speaks on the Senate floor.\n\nKelly drew on his experience as a Space Shuttle commander to describe the current moment: \u201cI happened to be the last person to sit in the Commander\u2019s seat of Space Shuttle Endeavour. It\u2019s hard to describe how it feels to be strapped to four and a half million pounds of fuel, waiting for three main engines and two solid rocket boosters to ignite beneath you\u2026 These last few weeks\u2014as engineers, researchers, and CEOs have all been shouting about AI becoming a threat to humanity\u2019s very survival\u2014I feel like I\u2019m back in that seat, with the Master Alarm blaring and systems failing. And nobody is steering the ship.\u201d\n\nKelly laid out what his bill would do: \u201cI\u2019m introducing The Make AI Work for Americans Act to make sure workers aren\u2019t left behind, and that Big Tech pays their fair share. These companies are getting rich off of a technology trained on the wealth of humanity\u2019s research, knowledge, and work. Our ideas and discoveries. My bill would require them to give some of that wealth back to us by investing in the American worker through an AI Horizon Fund.\u201d\n\nKelly pointed to broad and bipartisan support for AI regulation: \u201cEighty percent of Americans want us to step in and regulate AI. Eighty percent. I hear it from Arizonans every day. They\u2019re worried. They wake up wondering if today\u2019s the day their job just gets automated away. Wondering if their kids are going to have careers in the future or have a future at all. Americans across the spectrum want us to step in. Republicans. Democrats. Independents. All of them. The tech industry itself. Communities worried about data centers. Families who just want to be able to sleep at night. All of those groups would like regulation. It seems like the only people who don\u2019t want guardrails happen to be working in the White House. So, what\u2019s the holdup?\u201d\n\nKelly closed with a call to action:\u201cThe alarms are sounding. The signals are clear. No one else is coming to the rescue. Mr. President, it has to be us. So, let\u2019s be the leaders this country elected. Let\u2019s get this done now.\u201d", 1, "2026-09-23T09:45:16Z", "2026-09-23T09:46:14Z"]], "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.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/watch-on-senate-floor-kelly-calls-for-urgent-action-on-ai-announces-new-make-ai-work-for-americans-act/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.631074981763959, "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"}