WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and nine Senators in introducing the States' Right to Regulate AI Act, legislation to prohibit the Trump Administration's implementation of an Executive Order (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/) that attempts to block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The legislation was also filed as an amendment to appropriations legislation that the Senate may consider in the coming...