Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Support preserving state authority to regulate AI harms absent meaningful federal standards.. Promised outcome: States can protect their residents from AI harms when federal standards are insufficient or absent.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. As U.S. Senator from New Jersey during a 2026 Senate floor speech calling for a special AI session of Congress.
Occurrences
Preserve states’ ability to protect their own people in the absence of meaningful federal standards
Booker said states should retain the ability to protect residents if federal AI standards are lacking.
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“Preserve states’ ability to protect their own people in the absence of meaningful federal standards”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09 lookback window, Booker explicitly restated the commitment as part of his official AI agenda, but this was advocacy rather than enactment.
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“Mr. Schiff, Mr. Booker, Mr. Lujan”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo bill text places Booker among the senators introducing the States' Right to Regulate AI Act, an effort to block implementation of the Trump AI executive order; the bill was introduced and referred, not enacted in the cited text.
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“Booker (D-NJ), Yea”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Booker voted yes on Amendment No. 2814, which the Senate roll call describes as an amendment to strike the AI-related section from H.R. 1; this is a concrete vote aligned with preserving state AI authority from that moratorium.
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“strip a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulations”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate Commerce Committee described the successful amendment as removing a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation from the reconciliation bill, confirming that Booker's yea vote helped preserve state regulatory capacity in that legislation.
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“establishing a uniform Federal policy framework for AI that preempts State AI laws”
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The executive order sought federal preemption of conflicting state AI laws, creating an active obstacle to the preservation of state authority that Booker's later bill and statements opposed.