Comment by Josh Hawley

I would go farther. I think we ought to enact my legislation that I have with Senator [Richard] Blumenthal that would make that sort of reporting and monitoring mandatory.
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AI Verified Verified: the cited Roll Call article, posted June 2, 2026, contains the full sentence in its body text and immediately attributes it to Sen. Josh Hawley with “Hawley said.” The same article also identifies the referenced bill as Hawley’s legislation with Sen. Richard Blumenthal. ([rollcall.com](https://rollcall.com/2026/06/02/executive-order-sets-voluntary-cyber-reviews-for-advanced-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Year 2026 is current. The quote attributes to Sen. Josh Hawley a statement that he would "go farther" and enact his legislation with Sen. Blumenthal making AI reporting/monitoring mandatory. The vote "for" on statement 401 (Mandate reporting of AI training runs above 10²⁶ FLOPs) aligns correctly with the quote's pro-mandatory-reporting stance. Independent web search corroborates that Hawley and Blumenthal authored the bipartisan AI Risk Evaluation Act, which would make reporting/oversight of advanced AI systems mandatory — consistent with the quote. However, the source_url (rollcall.com) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden and blocks WebFetch, so I could not directly confirm the exact quote text appears on the page. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol for blocked sources. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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