WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: - In a letter to Senate leadership, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) urged funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to be included as part of future must-pass legislation, including the next government funding package. Earlier this month, the FCC Chair notified Congress that funding for th  more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Opt-In, Notification Standards, and Ethical Norms for Training (AI CONSENT) Act, legislation that would require online platforms to obtain consumers' express informed consent before using their personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Failure to do so would be considered  more