Washington, D.C. – 7/9/26… This week, Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05), Co-Chair of the Democratic AI Commission, are continuing their bipartisan effort to strengthen safeguards around artificial intelligence and protect the integrity of the 2026 elections, this week urging federal agencies to coordinate their response to emerging AI-related risks.
In a letter sent to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the lawmakers called on the agencies to work together to ensure AI-driven technologies do not undermine voters' access to accurate, neutral, and reliable election information.
Millions of Americans increasingly rely on AI-powered tools to research candidates, policies, and voting information; protecting the accuracy and integrity of those systems is critical to maintaining public confidence in America's elections.
“Providing voters with accurate, neutral, and verifiable information is not optional, but a democratic imperative. For two hundred and fifty years, the American experiment has rested on a simple but powerful idea: that free people, when given the facts, can be trusted to choose their own path. Today, the way our fellow citizens receive those facts is changing rapidly. As we approach the midterms, this transformation must not undermine the public’s confidence in the democratic process,” wrote the lawmakers.
The full letter can be found HERE.
Congressman Lawler is one of the most bipartisan members of Congress and represents New York's 17th Congressional District, which is just north of New York City and contains all or parts of Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, and Westchester Counties. He was rated the most effective freshman lawmaker in the 118th Congress, 8th overall, surpassing dozens of committee chairs.
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