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Patty Murray

U.S. Senator from Washington and Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

At minimum, over in Congress, we need to think about a floor of basic, bipartisan guardrails the entire country can get behind: for that to happen, we need hearings, briefings, testimony from industry leaders, markups, debate, and more. So far the Republican majority has done nothing. Trump wants to call AI risks a ‘hoax’ and call it a day. His most significant AI policies to date? He tried to rename it, and threatened states’ funding if they dare to regulate it.

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Senator Patty Murray, official October 8, 2026 release, “In Olympia, Murray Hears from State Leaders on WA Efforts to Regulate AI; Murray Emphasizes Need for Federal Action Without Preemption.” Murray calls for a federal AI-safety floor and criticizes threats to withhold funding from states that regulate AI.