Jamie Joyce

Her campaign website says she wrote the AI section of the MAD Act, which would put some AI uses off-limits immediately, create a federal review of AI's effects in 19 areas that produces draft legislation, and pause new frontier AI training and data center construction if Congress misses its deadline to act.^5,6,7

The MAD Act's website says the bill sets a federal floor for AI protections and keeps state and local laws that give equal or greater protection.⁶

1. Override state AI laws with a single national approach
2. Set national rules as a minimum and let states add stronger ones
3. Let states keep writing their own AI laws

Her campaign website says the MAD Act would dismantle the surveillance state; the bill's website says it would require data brokers to destroy their files on Americans, ban psychological profiling of individuals, and bar government agencies from buying commercial data on Americans instead of getting a warrant, subpoena or consent.^5,7,8

The MAD Act's website says the bill would require large AI data centers to report their water and power use publicly and would halt new AI data center construction if Congress misses its deadline to legislate on AI.^6,7

The MAD Act's website says the bill would require ICE agents to display their badge numbers, agency and insignia at all times and to keep body cameras on for the whole of every encounter.⁷

The MAD Act's website says the bill would not abolish ICE but would take ICE and Border Patrol officers without extensive new training off enforcement in populated areas and stop any expansion of immigration detention for five years.^7,9

The MAD Act's website says the bill would end a president's authority to deploy the military at home under the Insurrection Act after 7 days unless Congress votes to extend it, and would bar deployments in response to peaceful protests, ordinary crime that police can handle, or political disagreement.⁷

1. Let the president send troops into cities, even over a governor's objection
2. Send troops only when a state's governor asks for them or agrees
3. Don't use troops for local policing, and limit the president's power to send them

The MAD Act's website says the bill would require groups spending more than $10,000 on campaign activity to disclose their significant donors, require political ads to name their top funders, and extend disclosure to spending on federal judicial nominations.^5,7,10

The MAD Act's website says the bill would let states choose ranked-choice or STAR voting voluntarily and provide $1 billion over five years in grants to states and localities that adopt them.^7,11

Her campaign website says she supports Israel's right to exist but calls for blocking bomb shipments, letting humanitarian aid into Gaza and ending the famine there.⁵