Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet wrote to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) following last week’s Senate AI Insight Forums to highlight the growing consensus around the need for a new independent regulatory agency to oversee Big Tech companies and artificial intelligence (AI).

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed $39.8 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for a Microelectronics Commons Southwest Regional Hub – a collaborative forum for regional technology leaders, including the University of Colorado Boulder and private sector firms, to accelerate cutting-edge semiconductor research and development.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Senate colleagues to introduce the Carbon Dioxide Removal Research and Development (CDR R&D) Act.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and 21 Senate colleagues to urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Biden Administration to swiftly enact and strengthen a proposed rule to limit the availability of short-term limited duration insurance (STDLI) plans.

Following a report from the Census Bureau finding that childhood poverty more than doubled last year, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet made the case about the critical need to restore expanded, enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC).

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) joined U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and other Senate colleagues in introducing the Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper celebrated the decision of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to rename Colorado’s Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to cosponsor the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act.

This week, as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) kicked off his Senate AI Insight Forum, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet called for a dedicated federal agency to oversee Big Tech companies and assert the public interest.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) to reintroduce the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act.