Advance and support legislation to create one federal rulebook and national standards for artificial intelligence through the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act.

Marsha Blackburn · Tennessee · Republican

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I unveiled the discussion draft for the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act—comprehensive legislation that would create one federal rulebook for AI. This bill answers President Trump’s call for national AI standards while ensuring that America wins the global race for AI supremacy.

Blackburn described her TRUMP AMERICA AI Act discussion draft as comprehensive legislation to create a single federal AI rulebook and national AI standards.

PHOTO: Blackburn Keynotes Tennessee Valley Corridor National Summit in Chattanooga
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Evidence

The draft is marked 119th Congress, 2d Session, says Mrs. Blackburn introduced the bill, and gives the short title as the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act.

Official draft text shows Blackburn advanced concrete legislative language on AI, including federal AI standards, risk frameworks, child safety, creator protections, data-center ratepayer protections, agency AI use, and preemption language. The placeholder bill number indicates it was a discussion draft rather than enacted legislation.

partial same_term A for effort

TRUMP AMERICA AI Act discussion draft PDF, Office of Senator Marsha Blackburn
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Axios reported that Blackburn released an updated federal AI policy draft and quoted her saying Congress must establish one federal rulebook for AI.

This corroborates that Blackburn publicly advanced and supported the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act framework, but the article describes it as a draft and an ongoing negotiation with Congress and the White House, not a completed federal rulebook.

partial same_term A for effort

Blackburn rolls out updated AI plan in bid to lead Trump's agenda
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The order says the Administration must act with Congress to ensure a minimally burdensome national standard and directs a legislative recommendation for a uniform federal AI framework.

Trump's executive order created the federal context Blackburn invoked: a call for Congress to produce uniform AI legislation that preempts conflicting state AI laws. It was an executive action and recommendation process, not enacted legislation.

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Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
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The White House said the framework can succeed only if applied uniformly and that it looked forward to working with Congress to turn it into legislation.

The White House issued legislative recommendations aligned with the one-rulebook objective, but the statement itself confirms that Congress still needed to turn the framework into legislation before a president could sign it.

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President Donald J. Trump Unveils National AI Legislative Framework
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Blackburn Amendment No. 2814 was agreed to 99-1; its purpose was to strike the section relating to support for artificial intelligence. Blackburn voted yea.

Before the later TRUMP AMERICA AI Act draft, Blackburn led a successful amendment removing an AI-related provision from H.R. 1. This shows active legislative engagement on federal AI policy, but it did not create national AI standards or a federal rulebook.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 363, 119th Congress, 1st Session
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Assessments

never unknown A for effort

Blackburn materially advanced the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act as a discussion draft and publicly supported the one-federal-rulebook objective during her current Senate term. However, the evidence shows the proposal remained draft or recommendation-stage legislation, and no federal AI rulebook or national AI standards were enacted. Because this was a serious legislative attempt that did not deliver the promised statutory outcome, it is best scored as never with an effort badge.

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