{"id":21428,"date":"2026-07-29T23:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21428"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:35:21","slug":"cruz-drops-plans-to-advance-ai-bills-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21428","title":{"rendered":"Cruz drops plans to advance AI bills next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/80\/78\/8060869540a38598f2bec1144230\/u-s-congress-38852.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senate Commerce Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/175665\" data-person-id=\"175665\">Ted Cruz<\/a> said Wednesday he is again postponing a highly anticipated markup of artificial intelligence bills planned for next week. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Texas Republican said in an interview Wednesday, the panel will only take up bills focused on kids&#8217; online safety.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said senators could not strike a deal on AI legislation in time for the committee to vote next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to do a markup on kids&#8217; safety next week,\u201d Cruz told POLITICO. \u201cWe have moved the broader AI markup to September. \u2026 It&#8217;s our intention still to mark those up, but it is taking longer to get bipartisan agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz said the committee would mark up the <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_S_1748\" target=\"_blank\">Kids Online Safety Act<\/a>, led by Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/175665\" data-person-id=\"175665\">Marsha Blackburn<\/a> (R-Tenn.), along with other measures.<\/p>\n<p>Under the panel\u2019s rules, the chair must publish an agenda a week in advance. The committee did not immediately respond to a question about exactly which bills would be on the docket.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said Wednesday he is again postponing a highly anticipated markup of artificial intelligence bills planned for next week. Instead, the Texas Republican said in an interview Wednesday, the panel will only take up bills focused on kids&#8217; online safety. Cruz said senators could not strike a deal on AI legislation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/80\/78\/8060869540a38598f2bec1144230\/u-s-congress-38852.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}