Senator Marsha Blackburn introduced legislation to promote new business innovation.
Introduce and support legislation to promote new business innovation.
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Evidence
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Blackburn said Congress is supporting emerging technologies and that she has led bills to promote U.S. quantum development, including a Manufacturing USA Institute and public-private partnerships.
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Blackburn said AI should empower innovation and reintroduced bipartisan legislation she says is the most advanced piece of AI legislation before Congress.
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Congress.gov records S.1367 as introduced on 04/09/2025 and lists Sen. Marsha Blackburn as an original cosponsor.
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Blackburn's office says she recently introduced NQIA reauthorization and led bipartisan quantum bills, including public-private partnership and commercial-application measures.
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Congress.gov lists S.3597 as the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026 and Blackburn as an original cosponsor on 01/08/2026.
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Congress.gov records S.3312 as the Quantum Readiness and Innovation Act of 2025 and lists Blackburn as an original cosponsor.
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Congress.gov lists Blackburn as an original cosponsor of S.4178; the official title says the bill would promote AI industry innovation.
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GovInfo bill text names Blackburn among the introducers and states the purpose includes promoting AI innovation so companies of all sizes can thrive.
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Congress.gov lists Blackburn as an original cosponsor of S.2710, a bill to promote competition in the app economy.
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The Senate release says Blackburn, Blumenthal, and Klobuchar introduced the Open App Markets Act to protect competition in app markets.
Assessments
The promise was to introduce and support legislation promoting new business innovation, not necessarily to enact a final law. The record shows Blackburn materially supported and helped introduce multiple federal bills tied to innovation, including AI, quantum, public-private partnership, manufacturing, and app-market competition measures. Same-term evidence from the 119th Congress includes original cosponsorship of the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act, the Quantum Readiness and Innovation Act, and the NO FAKES Act, plus official Senate statements tying her work to technology and business innovation. Because the promised action was legislative introduction/support and she took those actions while in office, this counts as delivered in the same term.
Blackburn’s official Senate materials show her introducing and backing innovation-oriented legislation, including bills tied to AI, quantum development, and public-private partnerships. That matches the promise to introduce and support legislation promoting new business innovation, even though the evidence does not show enacted law.