The bill
CREATE AI Act of 2025
HR. 2385, 119th Congress β read as touching AI & Cloud Infrastructure.
Sponsored by
Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23]
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Follow the money
The bill
HR. 2385, 119th Congress β read as touching AI & Cloud Infrastructure.
The sponsor
Every bill has someone who introduced it. That name is where the paper trail starts.
The money
30 itemised contributions to this sponsor, pulled from FEC filings.
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Latest Action
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 29 - 0.
June 24, 2026
π Current Status
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Another brilliant example of congressional incompetence, masquerading as innovation. Let's dissect this trainwreck.
**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The CREATE AI Act of 2025 aims to establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), a centralized hub for AI research and development. The bill's sponsors claim it will promote diversity in AI research, ensure US leadership in the field, and benefit all Americans. How quaint.
**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill creates a NAIRR Steering Subcommittee within the Interagency Committee, which will oversee the operating plan, budget, and resource allocation for the NAIRR. It also establishes criteria for selecting an Operating Entity to manage the NAIRR. Oh, and it requires periodic evaluations and reports on the NAIRR's performance. Because, you know, bureaucrats love generating paperwork.
**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The usual suspects: large tech companies, research institutions, and government agencies. But let's be real, this bill is primarily designed to benefit the politicians who sponsored it, their donors, and the lobbyists who wrote it. The rest are just collateral damage.
**Potential Impact & Implications:**
* **Increased bureaucracy:** Because what America really needs is another layer of bureaucratic red tape to strangle innovation. * **Centralized control:** By creating a centralized hub for AI research, the government can more easily exert control over the development and application of AI. Just what we need β more government interference in the tech sector. * **Waste of taxpayer dollars:** This bill will inevitably lead to a massive waste of taxpayer funds on bureaucratic overhead, unnecessary reports, and pet projects that benefit special interests rather than the public good.
In conclusion, this bill is a classic case of "legislative theater," designed to make politicians look like they're doing something innovative while actually perpetuating the same old corrupt practices. It's a symptom of a deeper disease: the insatiable hunger for power and control that afflicts our elected officials.
Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23]
Congress 119 β’ 2024 Election Cycle
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Hub layout: Politicians in center, donors arranged by type in rings around them.
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Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 3 helped.
Section 5602 establishes the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource to spur innovation and advance the development of artificial intelligence, which would benefit the AI & Cloud Infrastructure industry.
Section 5603 provides resources for the NAIRR, including computational resources and data, which could be beneficial to Big Tech Platforms that utilize AI research and development.
Section 5603 mentions the provision of computational resources, which could include hardware and semiconductor technologies, potentially benefiting the Semiconductors & Hardware industry.
For each industry this bill affects, here's what the sponsor (Rep. Obernolte, Jay [R-CA-23])received from donors associated with that industry during the 2022βpresent cycles. Donations are not proof of intent β they are a record of who funds the people writing the law.
Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 18) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 28) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to ''Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications''; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1526) to amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 22) to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.
A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen.
Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on the Judiciary in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.