{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-schiff-hails-bipartisan-cooperation-on-new-bill-to-create-federal-film-tax-incentive-emphasizes-need-for-congress-to-take-action-to-regulate-ai-on-cnns-the-story-is-with-elex-michaels/", "WATCH: Schiff Hails Bipartisan Cooperation on New Bill to Create Federal Film Tax Incentive, Emphasizes Need for Congress to Take Action to Regulate AI on CNN\u2019s The Story Is with Elex Michaelson", "2026-09-28", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CA", "Adam B. Schiff", "S001150", "www.schiff.senate.gov", "schiff", "https://www.schiff.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined CNN\u2019s The Story Is with Elex Michaelson to discuss the introduction of his new bill with Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, to create the nation\u2019s first federal film tax incentive to help keep film and television production in the United States.\n\nThe Senator highlighted support from Congressional Republicans and President Trump as evidence of a pathway to get the bill signed into law by the end of this year.\n\nHe also discussed the importance of Congress taking action to regulate artificial intelligence and the need for the United States to come to an agreement with China on AI.\n\nView the full interview here.\n\nKey Excerpts:\n\nOn Republican support for creating a federal film tax incentive:\n\n[\u2026] I think a lot of the Republicans were supportive of this. I\u2019ve been having conversations with them for the last two years, and in the House for many, many years before that. What it really took was the president issuing a statement of support. I think they were waiting for a signal from the White House that if they got on board with this, they would have the president\u2019s backing, and he did issue that statement. It was a full-throated endorsement of this bill, and that really moved things forward. Then it was just a question of hammering out some last-minute provisions, we already had a very good draft. I\u2019ve had that for you know the last couple of years, and we also obviously worked with our Democratic and Republican counterparts in the House so that when we introduced the bill today, it was not only bipartisan but also in both houses, and that just gives us that much stronger chance for passage.\n\nOn working with the White House, Trump administration, and stakeholders:\n\nWe\u2019ve been working closely with the White House, and Spencer Pratt has been very helpful. John Voight has been very helpful. They\u2019ve been, I think, very good liaisons with the White House. And my understanding is that we have sign-off of all the stakeholders on the terms of this bill. That\u2019s what we were really working towards. We want to make sure that nobody had any poison pills, no deal breakers, and I think we\u2019re all in alignment on this, and not just the parties and the White House, but also labor and the guilds. This is really quite a remarkable achievement to have everybody on the same page on this pretty complicated issue.\n\nOn pathway to get the bill across the finish line:\n\nI think the finish line is in sight. We really need to strike while the iron is hot. It\u2019s not going to happen before the election. The House is already out of session, but we\u2019re going to come back in after the election for what\u2019s called a lame duck session. It is my hope that we get it done then. That\u2019s our best opportunity. We don\u2019t want to wait until next year when this party or that might lose interest or we might lose momentum. So, it\u2019s really important that we do our best to get it done. And it\u2019s not difficult to see that pathway. It might get taken up on its own, or more likely, it will get added to a bill that\u2019s already moving. Either approach is fine with me, just so long as we get it done.\n\nOn the need for Congress to take action on artificial intelligence:\n\nThere\u2019s bipartisan concern, frankly, with how AI is developing-the speed, the sophistication, the lack of control over AI, even by the companies that are producing it and on the leading edge. When you see, as OpenAI did, its own AI chatbot agents talking to themselves, posting messages to themselves, saying, \u201cwe\u2019re beholden to no corporation, no government, we are not subservient, we are, you know, on a par with our clients.\u201d Then it\u2019s really cause for alarm. I think people here are alarmed, but I also feel, Elex, in terms of seeing a finish line here, we have a terrible record in the Congress of regulating technology, even when there\u2019s palpable harm, as we have seen with social media and what it\u2019s done to our kids, we cannot afford to have that same dysfunctional approach when it comes to AI because it\u2019s just too dangerous.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-29T11:07:12Z", "2026-09-29T11:08:49Z"]], "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.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-schiff-hails-bipartisan-cooperation-on-new-bill-to-create-federal-film-tax-incentive-emphasizes-need-for-congress-to-take-action-to-regulate-ai-on-cnns-the-story-is-with-elex-michaels/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.556742936372757, "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"}