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David Moore retweeted
Josh Gottheimer has been put in charge of the Democrats’ AI policies as co-chair of the Commission on AI.
His stock portfolio is packed with conflicts, incl Nvidia, AMD, TSMC, chipmaking-equipment cos ASML and Applied Materials, and data-center infrastructure provider Vertiv.
We created the first searchable list of all the members of Congress with investments in AI industry.
Dozens sit on committees responsible for regulating AI or authorizing contracts to AI-driven defense contractors.
ALT preview of table: Members of Congress Invested in AI, at Sludge: https://readsludge.com/2026/09/18/here-are-the-members-of-congress-invested-in-the-ai-industry/
Full list, first and only in @Sludge—this accountability work is made possible by our subscribers at $100 for-a-year. If you think it's important to know which lawmakers are keeping an eye on their Big Tech stocks, please subscribe and get full access.
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Just out: at least 105 members of Congress hold personal investments in AI industry, according to an analysis of financial disclosures and hundreds of stock transactions this year.
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More than one in four federal lobbyists worked on AI issues last year, overwhelmingly for corporate interests.
As Congress slowly considers AI measures, members are also looking for revolving-door opportunities for staffers, in absence of a lobbying ban.
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Congress lobotomized its research capacity under GOP and Gingrich in the 90s (as Max Moran covers well in TAP today).
Big Tech lobbying groups like the Chamber of Progress (@ProgressChamber) don't get as much balance in talks with offices vs. antitrust:
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NEW: Congress' inaction on AI comes as more than 100 members hold investments in AI stocks. Analysis and full list at @Sludge, including lawmakers buying AI stocks this year that they oversee on committees.
MS NOW viewers are hearing from David Plouffe, former strategist for anti-labor Uber, who joined Binance as an advisor in 2022 and Coinbase after the 2024 loss.
He's also a director of Oscar Health, which via AHIP fights a public health insurance option.
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If you're worried about how democracy will function when Sen. Mitch McConnell—champion of the regressive filibuster, dark money, and billionaires—shuffles off the scene...
His spirit will live on in his fomer senior advisor, Erica Suares, guiding Recoding America's advocacy arm.
OpenAI employees circumvented paywalls to scrape training data from sites like NYT, per un-redacted court docs.
It was an alleged violation of JSTOR's terms of service that set federal prosecutors on Aaron Swartz, even though they had already settled.
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David Moore retweeted
Why can't the NYPD keep its notorious Community Response Teams from violating New Yorkers' constitutional rights?
Perhaps because under Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the department keeps assigning cops with troubling records to the units.
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The Anthropic-tied Public First Action showed its favor to Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the Democrats’ AI Commission that's tasked with proposing a regulatory framework. Lever News:
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Adam Jentleson @AJentleson will be on Brian Lehrer Show show. His centrist think tank @SearchlightInst, advised by VC investor Seth London ⬇️, doesn't disclose its donors, but per NYT, they include billionaire hedge funder Stephen Mandel and real estate investor Eric Laufer.
Mandel's fund Lone Pine is around a third invested in data center stocks, per Lever News, including Vistra Energy, a massive fossil gas company.
Q for @BrianLehrer producers to Jentleson: how can Dems know his think tank isn't pushing Mandel's portfolio?
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Last summer, we interviewed Amanda Fischer @amandalfischer on how the Clarity Act (coming up short in a Senate cloture vote now) lacks the consumer protections that the SEC could enforce for digital assets. Read more from her on the House-passed bill:
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Democrats had the Senate votes to pass a national vote-by-mail option in 2009. The House did not move bills.
Dems' 2021 bill for a mail voting option was blocked by the filibuster, as predicted. Senate Dems did not start the year by creating a carve-out.
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A cover story of @TheAtlantic by @anneapplebaum is on Trump foreign envoy corruption.
House Dems could have passed the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, which would have strengthened ethics over executive branch.
Dems have never moved the bill.
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