Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., said Wednesday that getting the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program off the ground – along with key permitting reforms – is his “top priority” this Congress. […]
Congress is warning that billions of dollars’ worth of advanced semiconductor equipment is continuing to flow to China, undermining U.S. efforts to slow Beijing’s technological rise – and some of those semiconductors are coming from America. […]
A bicameral bill introduced on Tuesday by Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., and Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., aims to provide timely relief to federal employees who have been illegally fired or subjected to other unjust personnel practices. […]
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Democrats are launching a probe into federal agencies’ plans for reductions in force (RIFs), warning agency leaders that laying federal employees off during a government shutdown would be unlawful. […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is sounding the alarm in a report out Monday, saying that without regulation, artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to the loss of up to 100 million jobs in the United States over the next decade. […]
Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is alleging in a new report that the Biden administration weaponized the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) by using it to police the speech of voters who supported President Donald Trump. […]
The Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) expired at midnight after Congress failed to reauthorize them – a casualty of the broader shutdown fight. […]
The government shutdown and Congress’s failure to reauthorize the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 15) have put cyber defenses at risk, cybersecurity experts are warning, saying the pressure is now on state and local governments and industry members. […]
As the U.S. government shut down on Wednesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned the funding lapse could endanger national security, saying, “Bad actors and adversaries do not take a day off.” […]
A pair of bipartisan senators introduced new legislation on Monday that would require a new evaluation program for advanced AI systems before they can be deployed, with steep penalties for developers who do not comply. […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging House Appropriations Committee leaders to include language in an upcoming short-term continuing resolution (CR) to protect NASA funding from proposed cuts by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has reintroduced the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act, a bill originally filed this Congress by the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly. […]
Stopgap funding legislation deadlocked in the Senate puts key cybersecurity programs at risk if the measure is not passed ahead of a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline. […]
Legislation that would fund artificial intelligence scholarships, centers, and teaching resources to expand education and cyber workforce training was introduced Tuesday by Rep. Vince Fong, D-Calif. […]
With elections on the horizon, a pair of Democratic senators are pressing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for answers on foreign threats to U.S. elections, raising concerns that she may have curtailed critical intelligence reporting on foreign election interference. […]
Legislation introduced by a pair of bipartisan lawmakers would require the departments of Energy, Interior, and Agriculture to assess the impact of proposed artificial intelligence data centers on rural communities. […]
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced today the first bill of several yet to come that he says will provide a “light-touch” regulatory approach to safe AI development and deployment by reducing the regulatory burden placed on AI developers. […]
Democrat James Walkinshaw won Tuesday’s special election to represent Virginia’s 11th district in Congress, filling the seat of his former boss, the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly. […]
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is asking Chief Justice John Roberts to conduct a comprehensive review of the federal court system’s cybersecurity protections after court systems recently suffered their second major hack in five years. […]
A bipartisan duo of House lawmakers has introduced a bill that would eliminate some educational requirements for cybersecurity-related positions within the federal government. […]
Senate Democrats are asking President Donald Trump to rethink his reported decision to allow top semiconductor chip producers in the United States to sell their products to China in exchange for fees to the government. […]
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Aug. 8 introduced the Quantum Encryption Readiness and Resilience Act, which aims to speed the pace of preparedness by the United States for the onset of quantum computing technologies that can break through most modern cryptography methods. […]
New legislation introduced by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., last Thursday seeks to block foreign adversaries from using internet-connected appliances to infiltrate and disrupt the United States’ electric grid. […]
Top Democrats are launching a probe into Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees embedded across Federal agencies and their alleged conversion to permanent positions. […]
A group of Republican senators is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate data security vulnerabilities posed by Chinese open-source AI models – such as DeepSeek – that might be feeding information back to the Chinese government. […]
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is taking another stab at directing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to collaborate with Federal and industry partners to develop guidelines for how third-party evaluators verify the testing and development of artificial intelligence systems. […]
A group of Democratic senators has introduced a new bill that aims to protect Americans’ privacy by requiring an audit of Federal agency computer systems and networks accessed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]
A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced legislation that would establish a national plan to defend Federal systems against emerging quantum computing threats. […]
As adversaries are increasingly leveraging AI and deepfakes in their cyberattacks, the chief information security officer (CISO) for the U.S. House of Representatives on July 29 stressed the importance of adapting security awareness training to keep up with the emerging technologies. […]
In Congress’s latest attempt to regulate artificial intelligence, House and Senate lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to promote public-private collaboration on testing financial sector AI systems. […]