Comment by Jerry Moran

help small businesses utilize AI to meet their needs, expand and innovate. Combining these tools with a trained workforce will help make certain the United States is utilizing AI to grow our economy and bolster our world-class businesses.
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AI Verified The commerce.senate.gov source returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but I confirmed the quote via multiple independent sources. It is genuinely attributed to Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) on the June 2024 introduction of the bipartisan Small Business AI Training Act with Sen. Cantwell. Moran's statement matches: "...would help small businesses use AI to meet their needs, expand and innovate. Combining these tools with a trained workforce will help make certain the U.S. is utilizing AI to grow our economy and bolster [our world-class] businesses..." (minor verbatim variants: "use"/"utilize", "U.S."/"United States"). Author attribution and year (2024) are correct, and the URL is the genuine primary source. The 2024 date is older but the quote remains relevant to the statement on incentivizing AI adoption to enhance workforce talent, so it is kept. No associated vote exists (null), so no vote alignment to fix. Per the recent-quote instruction, I also added a NEW 2026 opinion (id 9848) from the Feb 2026 reintroduction of the same bill — Moran's distinct "In rural communities where resources and workforce are limited, AI has tremendous potential to fill the gaps..." statement — linked to statement 407 with a "for" vote, since Moran clearly supports incentivizing AI adoption. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3h ago
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