Transcript: US House Subcommittee Hosts Hearing on "AI Regulation and the Future of US Leadership"

Washington DC, May 14, 2025 - House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) at a markup hearing on a budget reconciliation bill. 

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 15, 2025: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson testifies before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in the Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the US Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Sign on a doorway at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. 

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June 13, 2024 - The United States Capitol. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press

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National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. J. Stoughton/NIST. 

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