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Comment by Amy Klobuchar

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U.S. senator from Minnesota
it has broad support on both sides of the aisle to prohibit fraudulent AI-generated deepfakes in our election.
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AI Verified Verified. The official March 12, 2024 page on Sen. Klobuchar’s Senate website contains this exact wording in the transcript of her opening statement: “…and it has broad support on both sides of the aisle to prohibit fraudulent AI-generated deepfakes in our election.” The transcript attributes the statement to “Sen. Klobuchar,” so the quote is authentic, though it is excerpted from the middle of a longer sentence. ([klobuchar.senate.gov](https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2024/3/klobuchar-opening-statement-at-senate-committee-on-rules-and-administration-hearing-on-the-administration-of-upcoming-elections)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Checked: (1) Year 2024 is correct — from Klobuchar's opening statement at the Senate Rules & Administration Committee hearing on the Administration of Upcoming Elections, March 2024. (2) Relevancy: on-topic for statement 408 (criminalizing deepfakes/malicious AI in electoral campaigns). (3) Author attribution: confirmed — Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator from Minnesota and then-Chair of the Rules Committee; she leads bipartisan legislation on AI deepfakes in elections. Web search confirmed the verbatim quote: a bipartisan bill that "has broad support on both sides of the aisle to prohibit fraudulent AI-generated deepfakes in our election." (4) Vote alignment: she voted "for"; she champions prohibiting election deepfakes, so "for" is correct. (5) Source: the original source_url was a legistorm.com republication of the statement. I updated it (opinions_edit) to the primary source — Klobuchar's official Senate page for this opening statement. Both that page and the legistorm page returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim and correctly attributed to this exact March 2024 statement. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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