Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday said she will not vote for the “big, beautiful bill” covering President Trump’s legislative agenda when it comes back to the House because of a provision that would prevent states from passing laws to regulate artificial intelligence (AI).
“When it comes to AI and regulation, when we get to vote on this bill again, I will be voting no because of this clause,” Greene said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
The hearing, titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” was focused on the issue drawing Greene’s ire with the bill.
Greene has previously outlined her opposition to the AI part of the bill and acknowledged she was not aware of the section when the bill was first passed by the House.
“Now, while this bill was going through committees and being discussed in the House of Representatives, no one on either side of the aisle that I know of, Republican or Democrat, brought up this particular clause on one single page in an over 1,000-page bill,” she said Thursday.
The AI part of the bill calls for a moratorium of 10 years on state laws regulating AI models, systems or automated decision systems. This would also include the enforcement of existing and future laws on the state level.
If the Senate makes any changes to the House-passed bill, as expected, the House will need to vote again on the legislation.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can afford few defections on the bill given his tight majority, making Greene’s stance all the more important.
Greene says it would be wrong to prevent states from writing laws on AI.
In a post on the social platform X earlier this week, the Georgia Republican stated that allowing AI “free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous.”
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