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Andy Kim

5 press releases on AI$2K from AI-industry employees and PACs

Data as of: votes Oct 21, 2026 · statements Oct 19, 2026 · contributions Oct 19, 2026 · super PAC spending Oct 23, 2026. What changed

Said and voted

What they said

toward oversightSep 30, 2026

Kim pushed for enforceable federal safety and security standards for advanced AI systems to counter rogue AI threats while still fostering innovation.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census,…”

toward oversightSep 24, 2026

Kim, Warner, and Schatz demand Senate passage of legislation establishing enforceable safety and security standards for the most advanced AI systems before release.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee’s National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee, Mark R. Warner (D-VA), V…”

toward oversightSep 14, 2026

Kim calls on the Senate to reassert control over AI through guardrails and bipartisan legislation like the MATCH and BLADE Acts.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) released the following statement: “AI is moving faster than anyone – including its creators – can understand or control. We need to act and act now t…”

toward oversightAug 6, 2026

The BLADE Act would empower the government to expose, export-control, and sanction foreign entities conducting model extraction attacks on US frontier AI companies to protect national security and American AI leadership.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), along with Sen…”

toward oversightJul 30, 2026

Kim introduces the CHAT Act 2.0 to impose a federal risk-based framework and guardrails on AI companion chatbots to protect minors.

“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Jon Husted (R-OH) introduced the Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act 2.0. to establish a federal framework to protect minors from harms associat…”

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How they voted

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.

$2K

From employees and investors, personally

$0

From company PACs

By employer

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

Largest gifts

DateContributorEmployer, as filedAmountFiling
Jun 8, 2026Janel ThamkulANTHROPIC$500↗
Jul 2, 2025Christopher ColburnMICROSOFT$500↗
Jun 16, 2025William Tucker-RayGOOGLE LLC$500↗

Source: OpenFEC Schedule A, itemized receipts only, 2026 cycle, read Oct 19, 2026. The FEC itemizes a contributor once their gifts to a committee pass $200 in aggregate.