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Evans introduced the legislation to strengthen America’s leadership in open-source artificial intelligence as the United States competes with China for technological dominance — in addition to encouraging commonsense guardrails on this technology to protect consumers. The bill directs the Department of Commerce to support the adoption and use of American open AI models by identifying barriers, coordinating with American companies and startups, and developing policies that help U.S. innovation compete at home and around the world.\n\nThe legislation also takes aim at the growing national security and economic risks posed by AI models developed by foreign adversaries. It requires the Commerce Department to assess risks involving Americans’ personal and proprietary information, supply-chain security, model accuracy and censorship, safeguards against misuse, and threats involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or other national security capabilities.\n\nIf enacted, the Commerce Department will publicly report its findings and compare the adoption, cost, capabilities, and performance of foreign adversary models with qualified American open models.\n\n“The race for AI leadership is a race America cannot afford to lose. Communist China is working every day to outcompete us, steal American innovation, and expand its technological influence around the world. We should be making it easier for our nation's innovators and startups to build, compete, and lead. This bill helps unleash American open-source AI while implementing common sense consumer protections. 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America built the technologies that changed the world, and we’re going to keep leading.” –– Congressman Gabe Evans\n\nThe Open-Source AI Leadership Act will:\n\nSupport American open-source AI by identifying and addressing barriers that prevent U.S.-developed models from being adopted and used.\n\nConnect government with American innovators, including startups, to strengthen adoption of U.S. open AI models.\n\nExpose risks from foreign adversary AI, including threats to Americans’ data, cybersecurity, supply chains, national security, and economic security.\n\nIncrease transparency by requiring public assessments of leading foreign adversary AI models and comparisons with American alternatives.\n\nThe legislation defines qualified open models as those developed and made available by U.S. persons and excludes models developed or made available by covered nations or entities controlled by them.","url":"https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-gabe-evans-open-source-ai-leadership-act-passes-energy-commerce","published_at":"2026-09-01","ai_topics":["innovation","national_security","regulation","transparency"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["442a477e3ab972c0"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"442a477e3ab972c0","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"6c326fef00f14317","politician_id":"E000300","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Gabe Evans' bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act unanimously passed through the House Energy and Commerce, marking a major step toward protecting American families and small businesses from bearing the costs of powering new data center development. The legislation now advances to the House floor for a vote.\n\nThe bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act establishes commonsense standards for states and their Public Utility Commissions (PUCs) to consider when connecting large-load customers—such as data centers and hyperscalers—to the electric grid. The bill helps ensure these companies, rather than everyday ratepayers, are responsible for the costs of new power generation, transmission lines, and other infrastructure needed to meet the immense energy demand they require.\n\nAs energy demand continues to grow alongside America's leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Ratepayer Protection Act provides states with a framework to encourage economic growth while protecting households and small businesses from higher monthly utility rates.\n\n“America must build the energy infrastructure necessary to win the global AI race and outcompete adversaries like Communist China—but hardworking families should never be forced to subsidize that growth through higher electric bills. This bipartisan commonsense legislation ensures the companies creating new demand for electricity pay for the infrastructure they require—not Colorado families, farmers, seniors, and small businesses. I’m proud to see the swift advancement of the Ratepayer Protection Act through committee, and I look forward to its final passage in the House.” –– Congressman Gabe Evans\n\nBackground\n\nIf enacted, the legislation would establish federal standards for state regulators to use when reviewing proposals for new large-load customers with an electricity demand of 100 megawatts or more. The bill recommends:\n\nRecovering the full incremental cost of grid upgrades from the large-load customer over time through special rate structures or other agreements, ensuring utilities and existing ratepayers are not left paying for infrastructure if a customer later scales back operations or leaves the system.\n\nRequiring financial assurances that large-load customers will pay for the generation, transmission, and other infrastructure necessary to serve their demand, preventing those costs from being shifted onto families and local businesses through higher electricity rates.\n\nThe Ratepayer Protection Act builds on the principles of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, under which major technology companies committed to covering the energy and infrastructure costs associated with new data center development.\n\nThe bill now heads to the House floor for consideration.","url":"https://gabeevans.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-gabe-evans-bipartisan-ratepayer-protection-act-passes-energy-and","published_at":"2026-07-21","ai_topics":["data_centers","innovation","regulation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Evans backs winning the AI race through energy buildout while supporting federal standards requiring data centers, not families, to pay for grid costs.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["a43d67bbafe647d3"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"a43d67bbafe647d3","method":"title"}],"classifier":null}],"donations":[{"id":"4050720261509656098","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"SANKAR, SHYAM","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES","employer_canonical":"Palantir","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Palantir","amount":3500,"donation_date":"2026-01-30","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4050720261509656098","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202604159857245833"},{"id":"4050720261509656051","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"SANKAR, SHYAM","donor_type":"individual","donor_employer":"PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES","employer_canonical":"Palantir","donor_category":"employee","match_rule":"contributor_employer:Palantir","amount":3500,"donation_date":"2026-01-30","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4050720261509656051","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202604159857245817"},{"id":"4121920251299515854","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"GOOGLE LLC NETPAC","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Google NetPAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Google NetPAC","amount":1000,"donation_date":"2025-09-22","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4121920251299515854","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202510159790915233"},{"id":"4121920251299515853","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"GOOGLE LLC NETPAC","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Google NetPAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Google NetPAC","amount":1000,"donation_date":"2025-09-22","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4121920251299515853","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202510159790915232"},{"id":"4073020251212733794","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"GOOGLE LLC NETPAC","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Google NetPAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Google NetPAC","amount":2000,"donation_date":"2025-06-30","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4073020251212733794","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763106823"},{"id":"4073020251212733884","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC SEPARATE SEGREGATED FUND (AMAZON PAC)","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Amazon PAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Amazon.com Services LLC PAC","amount":1000,"donation_date":"2025-06-17","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4073020251212733884","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763106854"},{"id":"4073020251212733882","politician_id":"E000300","donor_name":"GOOGLE LLC NETPAC","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Google NetPAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Google NetPAC","amount":2000,"donation_date":"2025-06-09","cycle":2026,"fec_committee_id":"C00849844","fec_transaction_id":"4073020251212733882","filing_url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202507159763106853"}],"outside_spending_totals":[],"provenance":{"commit":"38624a3af16ec6b3fff9b27c7d1d9f2cb7fe9152","generated_at":"2026-09-11T15:06:57.105Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}