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Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced

BLADE Act

S. 5252Introduced Aug 5, 2026Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Official title: A bill to prevent foreign adversaries from threatening the national security of the United States by extracting key technical features of closed-source, United States-owned artificial intelligence models, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Sen. Bill Hagerty R-TN
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Where it went

Latest action: Aug 5, 2026 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

5 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats

3 of 5 cosponsors (60%) are from the other party.

Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Andy Kim (D-NJ), David McCormick (R-PA), Tim Scott (R-SC), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

More from the sponsor

Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty.

Sponsor’s state and district

Tennessee in Congress

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Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.