WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: Today, in a bipartisan letter to the Senate artificial intelligence (AI) working group leaders, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-ME), Co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jerry Moran (R-KS) unveiled the first congressional framework to deal exclusively with the extreme risks posed by future developments in advanced AI models. The senators' framework would estab  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), along with a bipartisan group of senators, in sending a letter to President Biden urging his administration to renew efforts to investigate the root cause behind  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: In a House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing for the U.S. Forest Service today, Ranking Member Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) called attention to the severe storms Maine has endured in recent months, which have impacted local economies, infrastructure, and forests. "Maine's logging industry suffered more than $2.6 million in losses from the Dec  more