Rich McCormick

Export Control and Compute Governance

Government control or restriction of advanced AI capabilities through trade, export, or compute access.

Investigations & Oversight subcommittee chair on House Science; led congressional letter raising "deep concerns" about Biden BIS Rule 00636 on AI diffusion; co-authored bipartisan CLOUD AI Act to "prevent China from exploiting legal loopholes to use American-made AI technology to strengthen its military".

AI Preemption

Stance on federal preemption of state AI laws, states' rights to regulate AI, and the patchwork of local vs. national regulatory approaches.

Called Georgia state leaders asking them not to pursue state-level AI legislation; said AI is a federal issue and "if each state does something different, it needs to come from the federal level"; reportedly stalled a Georgia state AI bill.