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House Passes The Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3, Sending Data Center Cost Rules To A Senate That Needs Unanimous Consent: The House on Sept. 16 passed HR 9340, by Reps. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), under suspension of the rules. It amends PURPA to have state regulators consider a standard making non-residential customers of 100 megawatts or more pay for the generation, transmission and distribution upgrades they trigger, with a hearing required within two years of enactment; states are not forced to adopt it. Reps. Summer Lee, Delia Ramirez and Rashida Tlaib cast the only no votes. Majority Leader John Thune said Senate passage before the election is possible but would take unanimous consent; Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) carries the companion, S 5028. Senate Energy ranking member Martin Heinrich said the bill "does nothing to meaningfully address the rising costs of AI data center development." Link

Rand Paul Blocks Kennedy's AI Emergency Button Act On The Senate Floor: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) sought unanimous consent Sept. 16 for a bill requiring advanced AI models sold in the U.S. to include an emergency kill switch controlled by the company that owns the model, not the government. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, warning that "if Congress acts hastily before the technology is understood, Congress risks killing innovation," and proposed a panel to study safeguards instead; Kennedy called that the "weenie way out." The objection sends the bill back to regular order. "If there is even a 1% chance that one of these AI models can shed its nature as a tool," Kennedy said, "we ought to take it seriously." Link

Anthropic's Policy Chief Rejects Self-Regulation: "We Can't Be Checking Our Own Homework": Sarah Heck, Anthropic's head of public policy, told Politico's Decoded Summit in Washington on Sept. 16 that there is no world "where you do safety and people are accepting of AI companies just doing it on honor code," breaking with the voluntary approach Republican leaders in Congress have relied on. She said Anthropic talks to the White House on a "daily basis" and that the U.S. must keep its lead over China, but declined to endorse on the spot the bipartisan House plan to embed outside evaluators at frontier labs, saying only that the company has always supported third-party evaluation. Link

Bessent Says The U.S. Is Open To Discussing "Shared Risks" On AI With China Ahead Of The Sept. 24 Trump-Xi Summit: The Treasury secretary told Axios on Sept. 16 that his weekend meetings in New York with Vice Premier He Lifeng will cover "avoiding shared risks and avoiding bifurcation of our two systems" and "both open and closed weight models." Washington will not slow its own development and still treats AI as a race it intends to win; the administration has rejected industry calls to pace frontier models. Xi Jinping is due in Washington Sept. 24. Link

New York City's Council Calls Altman And Amodei To An Oct. 5 Hearing Of All 51 Members: Speaker Julie Menin sent letters Sept. 16 inviting the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a rare full-council hearing on AI risk, citing "continuous and concerning reports showing the potential for AI to cause unprecedented catastrophic damage" and "the need for the City Council to urgently review effective and rational legislation." Measures under discussion could restrict building or upgrading AI data centers in the city and fine companies for unreported safety issues. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he welcomes the effort and is open to meetings of his own. Link