One of the two chambers of the U.S. Congress, responsible for drafting and voting on federal legislation, including tech and AI-related policy.
The GUARD Act, passed by the House on Tuesday, would let five existing Justice Department grant programs pay for the analysts, training and blockchain tracing software that local police say they lack in scam cases.
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Speaker Mike Johnson spent September 13 arguing that AI companies should carry primary responsibility for safety, President Trump spent it calling takeover risk a hoax, and neither offered Congress a bill to schedule.
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Mike Johnson said Congress would vote tomorrow if it had the solution. He is still sending the House home after this week until after the November elections. He proposed a meeting of chief executives instead.
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The Speaker rejected a national moratorium on AI buildout and said developers bear responsibility for safety. Two pollsters put opposition to data centers near respondents at 69% and 70%, and forecasters expect the midterms to cost him the gavel.
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Democrats asked the Speaker to cancel the House recess over AI risk. He said he would reconvene only if a viable solution was available, and the bill he is actually moving prices data-center electricity.
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Scientific American walks one grid state through three district plans, all of them buildable from tidy rectangles. The diagnostic weight lands on seat-vote arithmetic, which is not the same thing as proof of intent.
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Trump's outside adviser is building a working channel to the man who would be speaker. The Speaker who holds the job now says do not bet against House Republicans.
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