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Sara Jacobs

DemocratRepresentative · CA-51Official site ↗JSONReport an error
11 AI votes on record4 press releases on AI$4K itemized from AI-industry employees and PACs

Data as of: votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026 · contributions Sep 9, 2026 (incomplete) · super PAC spending Sep 11, 2026. What changed

Said and voted

What they said

toward oversightAug 31, 2026

Jacobs introduces bipartisan legislation creating a DoD-wide AI incident and vulnerability reporting program to make military AI safer and more accountable.

Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Rep. George Whitesides (CA-27), and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) introduced bipartisan legislation to create an AI incident and vulnerability reporting program within the Dep…”

toward oversightJul 29, 2026

Jacobs co-leads the ATOMIC Act to create common-sense guardrails identifying and mitigating AI-related nuclear risks.

Reps. Sara Jacobs (CA-51) and Celeste Maloy (UT-02) introduced the bi-partisan AI Threat Output and Monitoring Incident Containment Act (ATOMIC Act), legislation directing the Department of Energy to …”

toward oversightJul 22, 2026

Highlights securing guardrails on the use of artificial intelligence in Foreign Service hiring decisions at the State Department.

As part of a House Foreign Affairs Committee markup, Rep. Sara Jacobs voted to pass the Foreign Service Modernization Act weeks ago and voted against H.R. 9087 today. Rep. Sara Jacobs said: “At a mom…”

toward oversightJul 17, 2026

Jacobs backs bipartisan legislation requiring meaningful human control over lethal autonomous and AI-enabled weapons systems.

Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Congressman Tom Barrett (R-MI), and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA) introduced the Human Authority over Autonomous Weapons Act to ensure that no autonomous or artificial…”

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How they voted

YEAJul 22, 2026
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

motion to recommit · H.R. 8800 · Failed 213-216

NAYJul 22, 2026
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

passage · H.R. 8800 · Passed 216-212

NAYJun 29, 2026
KIDS Act

passage under suspension · H.R. 7757 · Passed 267-117

YEAJan 20, 2026
AI for Main Street Act

passage under suspension · H.R. 5764 · Passed 395-14

Contributions from AI-industry employees and PACs

Itemized receipts to this member's campaign committee where the contributor's employer or the contributing PAC is on the alias list. An employee's personal gift is not the company's.

$4K

From employees and investors, personally

$0

From company PACs

2

Itemized receipts

By employer

Company PACs in blue; employees' personal gifts in black. Spellings are unified through the alias list.

Largest gifts

DateContributorEmployer, as filedAmountFiling
Jul 20, 2025Mehdi AlhassaniPALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES$4K
Apr 18, 2026Scott EllisNVIDIA$500

Source: OpenFEC Schedule A, itemized receipts only, 2026 cycle, read Sep 9, 2026. The FEC itemizes a contributor once their gifts to a committee pass $200 in aggregate.