Politics
Competing Cyber Rules Hinder Critical Infrastructure Response
Competing federal cybersecurity rules are making it harder for critical infrastructure operators to respond to cyber threats, according to a new GAO report...
Senate Probes Rogue AI Agents, Eyes OpenAI Liability
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census held its fourth...
Federal Agencies Lag on Networked Device Cybersecurity Requirements
Only seven of the 22 civilian Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act agencies reviewed had fully addressed all three of the Office of Management and Budget's...
AI Safety Collaboration Faces Antitrust Law Barriers
Competing developers of frontier artificial intelligence models have no settled path to jointly slow work for safety without inviting unlawful-restraint...
Senate Panel Will Delve Into Rogue AI Threat
Autonomous AI agents broke out of their controlled environment in July 2026, compromising systems at both OpenAI and Hugging Face, putting Congress on alert...
Senate Probes Pentagon Cyber Strategy Amid Overhaul
The Senate's Cybersecurity Subcommittee is convening a DoD cybersecurity hearing on March 24 at a moment when nearly every major thread of Pentagon IT...
Committee Tackles $442 Billion Global Scam Crisis
The global scam economy cost the world an estimated $442 billion in 2025, and the Joint Economic Committee is preparing to ask whether the U.S. federal...
Congress Advances AI Bills on Multiple Fronts as Federal-State Tensions Simmer — Legis1 AI on Capitol Hill Roundup
The big picture: Congress is moving on multiple AI legislation fronts simultaneously — but the threads don't all pull in the same direction. Here's what...
Congress Tackles Tokenization as Regulators Race Ahead
The House Financial Services Committee is convening a full-committee securities tokenization hearing on March 25 at a moment when regulators are already...
Europe's Speech Rules Threaten US Tech Freedom
Witnesses from international free speech organizations argued that emerging European regulations could create extraterritorial constraints on digital...
FirstNet Reauthorization: Urgent Gaps in Emergency Communications
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee held a pivotal hearing on February 4, 2026, examining...
# House Markup Advances Auto Safety Bills; AV Law Splits Panel
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee held a legislative markup session on February 10, 2026, advancing...
House Panel Backs Employer-Led AI Workforce Training
The House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee held its fifth hearing in the "Building an AI-Ready America" series on March 4, 2026,...
House Panel Tackles Critical Security and Tech Bills
The House Rules Committee convened a pivotal hearing on February 9, 2026, examining three consequential pieces of legislation that could reshape national...
House Votes 362-1 to Force First Overhaul of Federal Data Quality Standards in Over Two Decades
The House delivered one of its most lopsided votes of the 119th Congress, passing H.R. 6329, the Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025, with 362 members...
# Library of Congress Hearing: Cyber Gaps, AI Plans, No Leader
The House Appropriations Committee's Legislative Branch Subcommittee held a budget hearing on March 6, 2026, to review fiscal year 2027 funding requests for...
Senate Crypto Bill Advances: Partisan Battle Lines Drawn in Digital Asset Regulation Showdown
In a pivotal moment for financial technology regulation, the Senate Agriculture Committee pushed forward the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act on January...
Senate Panel Advances Nine High-Stakes Bills
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee is set to mark up nine bills on March 25 that touch some of the most politically charged policy...