Sam Liccardo

Members of Congress are concerned that they don't have enough technological expertise available to them as they consider regulations for artificial intelligence.

Politico reports that Congressman Sam Liccardo, a California Democrat, said recently, quote, we need to dramatically increase the base knowledge of Congress if we're going to legislate meaningfully.

Another member, Congressman Mark Takano, has argued to stand up a new Office of Technology Assessment, which existed between the early 1970s and was retired in 1995.

He said he plans to introduce a bill along those lines soon with bipartisan support.

And I will share that we have the support of so many of our political leader, leaders as well, ourselves preparing.

Congressman Liccardo has been really on the front lines.

Supervisor Mueller, um, Senator Becker, Assemblyman Berman, all of them have really been supportive through different periods of this.

And we feel that we have a community that's ready to respond with a lot of love, care, and, and support.

We have a donor base which reflects people who agree with my policies.

We're working with the same fundraising team that Sam Liccardo used and that Ro Khanna used.

And these are people.

This is a really, I think, the democratic establishment is trying to draw this distinction and it's not really fair.

Yeah, so there are some characters you might recognize, three members of Congress, uh, Don Beyer, Ro Khanna, and Sarah Jacobs.

This was a big upgrade from last year when they only got Sam Liccardo, who's, you know, the local congressman.

Um, and then [laughs] there were also-

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Sure.

So the bipartisan Afghanistan TPS Act of 2026, uh, was introduced back in July by Representative Jason Crow and Don Bacon, uh, Representative Sam Liccardo, and Maria Salazar.

Since then, people like Scott Peters and Bill Keating and Joe Wilson have all gotten on the bill.

Um, Republicans and Democrats, and even an independent, Kevin Kiley, uh, uh, uh, Marcus Luttrell's on.

Um, and, and San Jose has a big legacy of that.

Google, you know, many years ago under previous Mayor Sam Liccardo, bought up so much public land in d- in downtown San Jose to try and do a new-

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... massive mixed use campus and township, basically, and that's gone nowhere, but at the time that the deal was being made, it was all done with NDAs.

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Representatives Sam Liccardo and Kevin Kiley proposed a framework for U.S.-China cooperation on AI safety.

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House Democrats wrote a letter to the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury in advance of US-China talks, asking them to discuss AI risks, the possibility of shared incident reporting, and research into verification technologies that could support any agreement not to pursue certain AI activities.

C-SPAN asked two members of Congress about this on this week's episode of our ceasefire program.

Mike Flood, publican of Nebraska, and Sam Liccardo, Democrat from California.

Congressman Flood, you have a media background, TV background.

Did you agree with the White House's decision?

And there's no part of my being that would like to see outlets be dismissed from the White House.

That's not to say that an individual reporter or a personality may conflict with the White House, but those outlets should have access to that information.

Congressman Mike Flood, Republican from Nebraska, and Congressman Sam Liccardo, Democrat from California.

The guests on this week's episode of C-SPAN Ceasefire.