Who?

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) — Chair, Foreign Relations Committee

Ask a Pol asked:

Do you think we’ll get any floor time on the AI and deepfake legislation?

Key Cardin:

“The Rules Committee, I think, is looking at this in conjunction to the elections. Trying to get something out ASAP,” Cardin told Ask a Pol.

“But this is gonna come down to foreign interference?”

“Well, we’ll find out,” Cardin replied. “We might have some interest in that.”

LISTEN: Laslo & Cardin

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ben Cardin

Ben Cardin: “The Rules Committee, I think, is looking at this in conjunction to the elections. Trying to get something out ASAP.”

Matt Laslo: “So it’s not really under your committee on Foreign Relations?”

BC: “No-no, no, it’s really Rules [Committee], ‘cause it’s election. But we have some…”

ML: “But this is gonna come down to foreign interference. Parts of it, but still.”

BC: “Well, we’ll find out.”

ML: “Yeah?”

BC: “We might have some interest in that.”

ML: “Do you think we’ll get any floor time? It just doesn’t feel like this is a thing.”

BC: “It’s a big — it’s a big deal, yeah. We’re trying to take care of the election issue first.”

ML: “Yeah? Preciate ya.”

Matt Laslo covers tech politics for WIRED, lectures on technology’s impact on government at Johns Hopkins and is the founder of Ask a Pol — a new people-powered press corps.

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