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Adam Schiff

Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen building on June 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Amid AI boom, Senate Democrats eye agency-led push to protect workers

A bill from Sens. Blunt Rochester, Hirono and Schiff charges the departments of Labor, Commerce and Education with studying AI’s effect on the workforce and awarding grants…
Gas turbines are visible at an xAI data center in Memphis, Tenn., on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers eye liquid cooling tech to solve AI data center problems

A bipartisan, bicameral bill pushes for a GAO R&D assessment of the technology to help mitigate rising energy demands and costs associated with the building of data…
Jack Reed
Sen. Jack Reed questions Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2015. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Tim D. Godbee)

Democrats sound the alarm on White House’s ‘refusal to cooperate’ in JEDI investigation

Democrat lawmakers aren't happy with the White House's refusal to be interviewed in the Pentagon IG's probe into the JEDI contract. Some even tie it to Trump's…
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