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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... [H]e tried to rename it, and threatened states’ funding if they dare to regulate it. ... There’s no time to delay AI safety.”
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Senator Patty Murray, remarks at a Washington State AI-regulation roundtable, October 8, 2026. Her official release identifies the event as advocating federal action without preemption and quotes her calling for a federal floor of bipartisan guardrails while criticizing threats against states that regulate AI.
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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government
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