For its section of the reconciliation bill — known by President Donald Trump and Republicans as the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” — the committee would hold back funds for deploying broadband internet and AI infrastructure from states that want to regulate the technology over the 10-year period of the moratorium. That’s different from the House text, which would ban states outright from regulating AI for a decade.
Despite the softer language, the Senate text is still far from ideal for a growing bipartisan group of lawmakers who want to see any moratorium killed outright.
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, pledged during a virtual roundtable and on the Senate floor to lead the effort to kill the provision as a violation of Senate rules. And he appears to have found an unlikely ally on the opposite side of the aisle: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia who voted in favor of the legislation and the 10-year moratorium, but now has said she regrets her vote.
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“AI is rapidly developing,” Greene said in a speech on the House floor. “AI has developed quickly over the past few years; imagine what it will be one year from now, five years from now, and 10 years from now. When we look to the future, we cannot take away states' rights to regulate or make laws to protect the people in their state or to regulate businesses that operate in their state. Tha ..
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