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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence (MI-14) introduced H.R. 6090, the Artificial Intelligence Reporting (AIR) Act of 2018, a bill that would allow for the Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI), established by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Committee on Technology (COT) to submit an annual report to Congress.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lawrence led a 
letter to the President’
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Lawrence announces a temporary funding expansion for public servants who were previously denied loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Lawrence joins Members of Congress in condemning the Trump administration for cruelly separating children from their parents at the border.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Lawrence (MI-14) statement on passage of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and inclusion of her amendment which would increase coordination of gender integration implementation plans in the Armed Forces.
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Brenda Lawrence signed a bipartisan discharge petition to force a long-overdue vote on the House Floor to protect America’s Dreamers.
Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Lawrence statement following Senate Intelligence Committee’s determination that U.S. intelligence community was correct in assessing Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the aim of helping then-candidate Donald Trump, which directly contradicts the findings reached last month by House Republicans.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Lawrence announces a funding opportunity for the state of Michigan and its surrounding communities through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development Transportation program (BUILD).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Sam Graves, (R-MO-06), Daniel Lipinski, (D-IL-03), Markwayne Mullin, (R-OK-02), and Brenda Lawrence, (D-MI-14), introduced H.R.
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After announcing that the Department of Housing and Urban Development would nearly triple rent for low-income Americans, Ben Carson seemed to shift his position. At a speaking event in Detroit, Michigan, on June 7, Carson indicated that rent for federal housing residents might not be raised after all, since other sources of funding had been identified. However, Brenda Lawrence, the U.S.
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Maine's members of Congress are urging President Donald Trump's administration not to place tariffs on seafood imports from China because they fear such a move would jeopardize the state's valuable lobster industry. Maine's Congressional delegation of independent Sen. Angus King, Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree and Republican Rep.