During remarks on the House floor, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke in opposition to provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that restricts state level AI regulation.
00:03I rise today to address the House about a clause that is in the one big beautiful bill.
00:09This clause would take away state rights to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.
00:18I think federalism is something that we must always protect.
00:21And I warn against the dangers of protecting a tech industry where we have no idea the future of what this industry will hold.
00:32AI is rapidly developing.
00:34AI has developed quickly over the past few years.
00:37Imagine what it will be one year from now, five years from now, and 10 years from now.
00:43When we look to the future, we cannot take away states' rights to regulate or make laws to protect the people in their state
00:52or to regulate businesses that operate in their state.
00:55That would be destroying the very foundation of this country, which is federalism.
01:00We must always limit federal power and protect state power.
01:06Now, the pushback and the reasons that I have been told about this is that American tech and AI companies must be able to compete with China.
01:17Well, American tech and AI companies can compete with China, and they should compete with China.
01:24However, we don't destroy federalism in order to allow them to do that.
01:29That would be a fool's errand.
01:32Here's how this can work.
01:34Governors and state legislatures can make their states friendly for tech companies and AI,
01:42bringing these companies in by making it easy for these companies to operate in their states.
01:48That's how it's been done for every single innovation, industry, manufacturing, and all companies across America.
01:56You don't destroy federalism for one industry.
02:00You protect it and allow states to compete to bring those companies into their states.
02:06That's the right way to handle this going forward.
02:09Here's a lesson for us all, no matter what political party holds office and is in charge, we should all watch carefully the bills that we pass and we should be mindful about protecting not only state rights, but the rights of the American people and look to the future.
02:29When I was a freshman member of Congress in 2021, I was told that we would be at war with China within five years.
02:37Well, here we are approaching five years later, I don't think America should have to go to war with China.
02:44We can beat China economically.
02:47Ask yourself, why do we send our food to be processed over in China?
02:52Why do we rely on China to produce our critical supply chain like medicines?
02:57So why would we depend on this country to have to, for the American people's supplies, and why would we go to war with them when we can be innovative right here at home in America, producing critical chain supplies, medicines, processing our own food?
03:15A war is nothing we should ever strive for, or look for, or prepare to have to engage in.
03:24We should conduct ourselves here at home in a way where we don't have to go to war.
03:29We don't have to depend on foreign countries, and we never destroy federalism for the future of an industry that we have no idea what it will do.
03:39With this warning, I urge all of my colleagues that when the House gets to vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill again, after it leaves the Senate, that we make sure we protect federalism, and at the same time, urge our colleagues in the Senate to pull this clause out of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
03:59This bill should be about tax policy, protecting Americans to not have to have a tax crease of over $4.7 trillion.
04:08It should be about America First Energy and Americans' border security, not about allowing AI to run rampant and destroying federalism in the process.
04:20With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield the remaining of my time.
