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A group of mostly Republican lawmakers is pushing a proposal in the House that could dramatically reduce the cost of federal student loans by capping interest rates at 2 percent. This would save borrowers thousands of dollars over the life of their loans. But despite backing from both Republicans and one Democrat, the effort is facing resistance from an unexpected source: Democrats who… Read more »

The Stop Rogue AI Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop standards for deploying artificial intelligence agents -- to be implemented by federal agencies and contractors -- that don’t exclusively depend on covered organizations self-attesting to their origin, according to text of the legislation. The bill, introduced Sept. 9 by Reps. Josh Gottheimer… Read more »

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) are introducing a new bill Thursday, first shared with Axios, aimed at securing AI agents amid a growing number of safety incidentsinvolving rogue agents.  Why it matters: Washington has been slow to respond to the safety and security concerns raised by OpenAI's Hugging Face hack and other testing incidents… Read more »

NEW YORK – Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore today released the City’s World Trade Center 25-Year Health Impact Report, detailing the latest findings on the long-term health effects of September 11, 2001, and the World Trade Center rescue and recovery effort on FDNY members Produced by the FDNY World… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – 8/4/26… Today, Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) has earned a Bridge Score of 99.2 out of 100, and an “A” grade in the latest Bridge Grades report evaluating the 119th Congress, placing him among the highest-rated members of the U.S. House of Representatives and earning the top score of any member of New York’s congressional delegation. Bridge Grades, a nonpartisan… Read more »

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is now the law of the land. It is the most significant piece of housing legislation to pass Congress since 1990 — and it includes six bills I wrote. If you live in the Hudson Valley, you don't need me to tell you why it was necessary. You see it every single day. In early 2019, the median single-family home in Westchester sold for $605,000. Last… Read more »

News: Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) are urging four federal agencies to address potential election-integrity threats posed by artificial intelligence, including the spreading of inaccurate or biased information. In a new letter, the bipartisan duo called for “the development and deployment of appropriate monitoring and mitigation capabilities” and pushed for… Read more »

The lawmakers, led by Reps. Mike Lawler and Brad Sherman, warned the White House of Turkey’s ‘constant and growing anti-Israel rhetoric’ and its relations with Iran A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump on Thursday to “express deep concern about any effort to sell F-35s to Turkey.” The letter comes after Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly… Read more »

New York House Republicans are ramping up a pressure campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., citing her failure to combat rising utility costs in the Empire State. The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is calling on Hochul to scrap the state’s 2019 climate law that they blame for "skyrocketing" energy prices. "Utility bills are at the center of the… Read more »

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) will oppose a War Powers Act resolution designed to restrain President Trump on Iran, the two lawmakers tell Axios. Why it matters: Their opposition to Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) resolution, which Khanna and Massie plan to bring to the House floor next week, will make it harder to pass. Gottheimer's… Read more »