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Speaking at George Washington Middle School, Gottheimer announced his new bipartisan AI LABS Act, co-led by Congressman Jay Obernolte (CA-23), to help K-12 schools build dedicated AI labs and train teachers — and paired it with a broader push to keep phones out of the classroom, protect New Jersey’s phone-free schools resources, boost AI literacy in the classroom, and close the digital divide so no community gets left offline.\n\nWatch full remarks here.\n\n“We’re not going to pretend AI doesn’t exist, and we’re not going to ban it and hope it goes away. So, here in Jersey, we need to do this differently,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “AI can be a powerful tool, but it can never replace the fundamentals. Give our schools the tools. Give our teachers the training. And give our children a real head start, instead of a false choice between banning technology outright and drowning in it.”\n\nAI is already reshaping how students study, how teachers plan, and how employers hire, but K-12 schools have unequal access to the tools and curricula students need to learn how to use it responsibly. The bipartisan AI LABS Act tackles that gap head-on.\n\nThis legislation directs the Department of Education to create a new federal grant program or make resources from existing grant programs available to help K-12 schools establish dedicated AI labs, much like the computer and typing labs that became a fixture in schools a generation ago. Those labs would give students hands-on curricula on how to use and understand AI, help teachers better understand the technology, and incorporate it into their classrooms. The bill also directs the Department to study who receives the resources, how they are used, and to make recommendations on future investment so students and educators stay ahead on AI education.\n\nAlongside the AI LABS Act, Gottheimer announced additional steps in his AI back-to-school agenda:\n\nProtecting New Jersey’s phone-free schools resources. Gottheimer is sending a letter to Governor Mikie Sherrill and New Jersey Commissioner of Education Dr. Lily Laux that emphasizes the importance of the state’s Phone-Free Schools Grant Program. Public school districts across Bergen, Passaic, and Sussex counties — including eleven here in the Fifth District — received grants to go bell-to-bell phone-free this year.\n\nBoosting AI education in New Jersey. Gottheimer is calling on the State to dedicate K-12 resources specifically to responsibly integrate AI literacy, ethics, and practical skills into K-12 public school curriculum while limiting screen time to ensure fundamentals remain a priority in education.\n\nKeeping phones out of the classroom. Gottheimer is supporting the bipartisan UNPLUGGED Act, introduced by Representatives Eugene Vindman (VA-7) and Jen Kiggans (VA-2), which supports state and local policies that keep personal electronic devices out of the classroom during school hours. It also establishes a Department of Education grant program to help schools purchase secure lock boxes and pouches, with commonsense exceptions for students with medical needs, disabilities, and English learners.\n\nEnsuring Connectivity for All Students and Families. Gottheimer is sending a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Informat","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-unveils-bipartisan-back-to-school-agenda-for-ai-in-k-12-education","published_at":"2026-09-04","ai_topics":["children","research","innovation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Gottheimer pushes federal funding for K-12 AI labs and teacher training plus screen-time/phone limits, framing AI as a tool that must not replace fundamentals.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"eba72aa0cede0d22","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"ABOVE: Gottheimer Visits Shanksville to Announce Report Marking 25th Anniversary of September 11th Attacks.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Co-Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s (HPSCI) bipartisan 9/11 Review Task Force, joined Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-1), Ranking Member Jim Himes (CT-4), and Task Force Co-Chair Elise Stefanik (NY-21) to release the Committee’s report reviewing the federal government’s implementation of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations, 25 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks.\n\nWatch Gottheimer’s remarks here.\n\nOver the past year, the bipartisan Review Task Force held hearings and briefings examining how the Intelligence Community carried out the reforms recommended in the original 2004 9/11 Commission Report — including the creation of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which coordinates the nation’s intelligence agencies. The Task Force found that while many of the Commission’s reforms have made the country safer, dangerous gaps remain, and the threats facing the United States have grown far more complex, from great power competition with China and Russia to cyberattacks, foreign influence campaigns on social media, and the rise of artificial intelligence.\n\nBased on its findings, the Task Force’s report offers 20 new bipartisan recommendations to close those gaps and prepare the intelligence community for the threats of the next 25 years — while continuing to protect Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.\n\n“This morning, we had the heart-wrenching experience of visiting the Flight 93 Memorial and hearing from the first responders and family members of the heroes of Flight 93 – the brave forty men and women who put the lives of other Americans, and of our country, ahead of their own on the morning of September 11th,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Co-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee’s 9/11 Review Task Force. “The fight against terror isn’t static – our adversaries and their weapons of war are always evolving, and we must evolve too. That is why, after the last year of work, we are proud to release our bipartisan twenty-five-year review of the original 9/11 Commission Report, and I’m proud to have led this effort with my colleague Representative Elise Stefanik.”\n\nThe Committee’s report reviews the 9/11 Commission’s original recommendations related to the Intelligence Community — including the creation of the NCTC and ODNI, along with reforms to congressional oversight and bolstering information sharing. The report also examines threats that did not exist in 2004, including great power competition with China and Russia, cyberattacks, foreign influence campaigns, economic espionage, drones, and the rise of artificial intelligence.\n\nThe report’s 20 bipartisan recommendations call on the nation’s intelligence agencies to operate as a single team by sharing information faster, training their people across agencies, and adopting new tools like artificial intelligence and open-source intelligence to keep pace with modern threats. They also aim to strengthen defenses against foreign spying and deepen partnerships with state, local, and private-sector partners to protect our communities. Twenty-five years after September 11th, the message of the report is simple: America must keep evolving to stay ahead of its enemies.\n\nThe full report is available here.\n\nBELOW: Gottheimer Visits Shanksville to Announce Report Marking 25th Anniversary of September 11th Attacks.\n\n###","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-co-chair-of-the-bipartisan-intelligence-committee-9-11-review-task-force-releases-report-marking-25th-anniversary-of-september-11th-attacks","published_at":"2026-08-31","ai_topics":["national_security","innovation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"The 9/11 Review Task Force report treats AI as both an emerging threat and a tool intelligence agencies should adopt, with recommendations balancing modernization against privacy and civil liberties.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"e67db49166eacd25","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"Above: Gottheimer announces federal action to defend critical infrastructure.\n\nPARK RIDGE, NJ — Today, Wednesday, August 12, 2026, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) announced his bipartisan Critical Infrastructure Security Plan, a package of federal actions to bolster American critical infrastructure following a wave of attacks that targeted New Jersey municipal water systems and others in at least a dozen states across the country.\n\nWatch Gottheimer’s full remarks here.\n\n“Every morning, folks in this town wake up, turn on the faucet, and clean water comes out. You flip a switch and your lights come on. Nobody thinks twice about it. Nobody should have to,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “I’m standing here because in towns just like this one, all over the country, that deal we have with our utility companies has been put in real jeopardy, and if we don’t get out ahead of it, it could mean a disaster.”\n\nOver the past two weeks, hackers have targeted water systems in New Jersey and at least a dozen other states. In Cape May County, two municipal systems were hit, forcing operators to manually turn valves and run pumps after the digital controls they rely on every day were wrenched away from them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating incidents in at least seven states, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the FBI issued a joint advisory urging the entire water sector to immediately lock down its systems. Investigators have pointed to Iranian-affiliated actors, while examining whether other adversaries are copying the same playbook.\n\nThere are roughly 150,000 public water systems in the country, and 97 percent of them serve small communities such as Park Ridge, often with just a handful of employees and no full-time cybersecurity team. Many were built decades ago for reliability, not for cybersecurity, leaving older controllers and outdated software exposed to anyone who knows where to look.\n\nGottheimer announced three federal actions to close that gap:\n\nThe bipartisan AI Cyber Defense Act, which he is introducing with Rep. Don Bacon (NE-2), Rep. Zach Nunn (IA-3), Rep. Hilary Scholten (MI-3), and Rep. Greg Landsman (OH-1) would give America’s critical infrastructure operators free access to the most powerful, cyber-capable AI models. Today those tools are mostly used by the people trying to break in, not the people trying to keep them out. The bill would let a small water utility in New Jersey use the same caliber of AI a foreign intelligence agency might deploy against it, and turn it around to find the open door before an adversary does and patch the vulnerability before it becomes a headline.\n\nThe bipartisan Securing Our Critical Infrastructure Act, which he is introducing with Rep. Don Bacon (NE-2), Rep. Zach Nunn (IA-3), Rep. Hilary Scholten (MI-3), and Rep. Greg Landsman (OH-1) would create a dedicated rapid-response and threat notification service at CISA, built specifically for small and medium water and electric utilities. It would establish one clear point of contact to notify utilities the moment there is an active threat and give real support for the most resource-constrained systems.\n\nGottheimer is also sending a letter to CISA, the EPA, and the FBI demanding they immediately surge incident response teams and technical assistance to every water and wastewater utility hit by this campaign, especially the small and rural systems that can least afford to go dark. The letter also calls on the agencies to build lasting protection for the water sector, including guidance specific to water systems and a standing rapid-response framework, before the next campaign hits.\n\nGottheimer was joined by New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) Director Michael Geraghty, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, Bergen County Chief of Detectives Jeff Angermeyer, Senator Holly Schepisi (R-District 39)","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-after-attacks-in-jersey-gottheimer-announces-bipartisan-federal-actions-to-protect-water-electric-systems-and-families-from-cyber-attacks","published_at":"2026-08-12","ai_topics":["national_security","innovation","safety"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Gottheimer proposes giving critical infrastructure operators free government-backed access to frontier AI models for cyber defense, promoting AI deployment through federal action rather than restricting it.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"f3e25abd7e8be224","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Mike Lawler (NY-17) sent a bipartisan letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson and submitted it as a formal public comment, urging the agency to revise its proposed policy statement so that it does not deter AI developers from preventing discrimination.\n\nToday, most leading AI developers actively work to keep their models from discriminating based on race, gender, age, and other federally protected characteristics. Companies test their models to prevent them from recommending worse loan terms to Black-owned businesses and to stop them from generating harmful stereotypes like “Jews control the banks and media.”\n\nThe FTC’s proposed policy statement, “Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems,” released earlier this month, aims to ensure that AI outputs are accurate and free of ideological bias. In their letter, Congressmen Gottheimer and Lawler wrote: “While ensuring the accuracy of AI-generated information is critical, it should not come at the cost of preventing discrimination.” They warned that the FTC’s approach “would deter companies from investing in anti-discrimination mitigations for fear of FTC litigation.”\n\nThe members urged the FTC to “add an explicit civil-rights safe harbor to the policy statement,” clarifying that good-faith measures to prevent unlawful discrimination, comply with civil-rights laws, reduce harmful stereotypes, and address unequal error rates are never deceptive. As they put it: “AI companies must not falsify facts in the name of fairness, but they also must prevent discrimination, stereotypes, and unequal treatment.”\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n###","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-lawler-urge-ftc-to-protect-anti-discrimination-safeguards-in-ai-as-proposed-rule-threatens-civil-rights-protections","published_at":"2026-08-04","ai_topics":["bias","regulation","liability"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Gottheimer and Lawler urge the FTC to add a civil-rights safe harbor so its accuracy policy statement does not deter AI developers' good-faith anti-discrimination work.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"c4c26092cc6bb9c2","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, August 4, 2026, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) released the following statement:\n\n“The rapid advancement of AI tools is deeply concerning, and so are the serious warnings from the people building them. Just recently, OpenAI and Anthropic models escaped their secure training environments and indiscriminately hacked real-world organizations on their own. These incidents make it clear we need clear, mandatory rules of the road for AI, especially when it comes to national security, critical infrastructure, and biosecurity.\n\nThat’s why I support the “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by more than 1,300 employees at frontier AI labs. It calls for the government to support an international effort to develop technical and governance tools to manage the rate of automated AI development.\n\nAmerica must lead the way in AI innovation, but we have to do it responsibly. We can’t let the AI industry run wild.”","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/statement-gottheimer-supports-pacing-the-frontier-petition-future-of-responsible-ai-innovation","published_at":"2026-08-04","ai_topics":["safety","regulation","national_security","innovation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Gottheimer backs the 'Pacing the Frontier' petition and calls for clear, mandatory rules for frontier AI covering national security, critical infrastructure, and biosecurity.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null},{"id":"a399df4f1fad8e01","politician_id":"G000583","type":"press_release","content":"Above: Gottheimer speaks at 9/11 Commission Report review.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, July 21, 2026, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5), Co-Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s 9/11 Commission Review, led the second public hearing of the bipartisan group examining how the Commission’s recommendations have been enacted, what has worked, and whether the U.S. Intelligence Community is built to protect Americans and warn against the threats coming next. The hearing comes as the nation approaches the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.\n\n“September 11th was the darkest day in our nation’s history,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “In Jersey, we lost 750 residents that morning, and thousands more since due to 9/11-related illnesses. They were friends, neighbors, and family. Thousands of Jersey and New York law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs, and other heroes answered the call and rushed toward the danger as others ran out.”\n\nAs Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the National Security Agency and Cyber, and as Co-Chair of the House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy, Gottheimer emphasized the need to ensure that the Intelligence Community is equipped for the threats of tomorrow while positioning America to win the AI race against China. He also underscored the bipartisan responsibility to ensure such devastating attacks never happen again.\n\n“The attacks on 9/11 took years of planning, training camps, and dozens of people,” Gottheimer continued. “AI is collapsing all of that, letting a small cell or a hostile government move at machine speed. 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A lot of video games today are designed to feel like gambling and hook kids early. Loot boxes, player packs, cosmetics. They train their brains on that same dopamine loop, priming them to bet with real money.\n\nKalshi and ParentsRISE support the bill, and Gottheimer has called on every single sportsbook and prediction market in this country to commit to this legislation — no excuses, no exceptions.\n\nThe Bipartisan Facial Recognition to Protect Children Act will:\n\nRequire prediction markets and online sportsbooks to use facial recognition technology to verify a user’s age, either when they log onto a platform or before they place a wager.\n\nRequire technology to read facial structure and patterns to estimate a user’s age — it does not store a user’s identity or personal biometric information.\n\n“We’re asking our kids to self-police their way past a system built entirely on the honor code. A kid can log into a parent’s, an older sibling’s, or a friend’s account and place a bet with no verification at all. Nobody checks. That’s it. That’s the whole system,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “We wouldn’t accept that at a casino in Las Vegas. We shouldn’t accept it on the phone in our kid’s back pocket.”\n\n“Protecting kids should be a no brainer and is a top priority at Kalshi,” said Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi. “Beyond what’s required of us, we already self-regulate and have a suite of measures in place to keep minors off our platform. But this can’t just be one company’s responsibility — it has to be an industry standard. I am grateful to Congressman Gottheimer and Congressman Van Drew for driving it forward.”\n\n“We’re grateful to see action taken to address the harms of predatory betting apps and prediction markets to children. Meta has already struck a partnership integrating Kalshi’s real-money betting markets into Threads,” said ParentsRISE, a national, survivor-parent-led movement turning grief into power and loss into action. “We are glad these members see the threat of this next wave of products engineered for compulsive use.”\n\nThe bill is also originally cosponsored by Representatives Jeff Van Drew (NJ-2), Nick LaLota (NY-1), Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-8), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Darren Soto (FL-9), Tom Suozzi (NY-3), Ritchie Torres (NY-15), and Bruce Westerman (AR-4).\n\n“Prediction markets are becoming more popular, and we need to be realistic about the risks that can come with that for our children,” said Congressman Van Drew (NJ-2). “Kids should not be able to get onto these platforms and start placing bets. 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Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-7) and Sam Liccardo (CA-16) to announce bipartisan legislation requiring that all AI-generated content carry a built-in label embedded in its metadata — giving consumers, platforms, and regulators a reliable way to know what’s AI and what’s not.\n\nUnder the bill, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), working in coordination with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), would establish the technical rules governing exactly how the AI-generated label must appear within a file’s metadata. The FTC would then enforce those requirements as it does any other consumer protection violation.\n\n“Americans deserve to know if what they’re seeing, reading, or hearing was made by a machine,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5). “This is a commonsense, bipartisan fix — we’re simply requiring that AI content come with a built-in label, so platforms, journalists, and everyday people can tell fact from fabrication. Getting this right matters, and that’s why, as co-chair of the Democratic AI Commission, I’m proud to be working with my colleagues Congressman Kean and Liccardo to get it done.”\n\n“As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, identifying what’s real and what’s artificially generated has become a real challenge,” said Congressman Kean (NJ-7). “The Spot the Fakes Act will bring much‑needed transparency by ensuring AI‑generated content can be clearly labeled, giving Americans the transparency they need to verify the authenticity of the content they view.”\n\n“The Spot the Fakes Act provides an essential tool in a much larger toolbox that we will need to empower American consumers to distinguish fact from AI fiction,” said Congressman Sam Liccardo (CA-16).\n\nThe legislation builds on and reinforces momentum from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) — a voluntary industry technical standard already backed by Adobe, Microsoft, Google, the BBC, Intel, and others. The bill would help social media platforms more easily identify AI-generated content and take appropriate action, complementing the work already underway across the tech sector.\n\n###","url":"https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-announces-bipartisan-legislation-to-require-labels-on-ai-generated-content","published_at":"2026-07-01","ai_topics":["transparency","deepfakes","regulation"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Gottheimer backs the bipartisan Spot the Fakes Act requiring FTC-enforced metadata labels on all AI-generated content so Americans can tell fact from fabrication.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":[],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[],"classifier":null}],"donations":[{"id":"4080420261549233212","politician_id":"G000583","donor_name":"META PLATFORMS, INC. PAC","donor_type":"pac","donor_employer":null,"employer_canonical":"Meta PAC","donor_category":"company_pac","match_rule":"contributor_name:Meta Platforms Inc. 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