Michael Baumgartner

Export Control and Compute Governance

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

Introduced the bipartisan Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act to close gaps in allied export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment sold to China. Stated that the United States "cannot afford to leave open back doors" for the Chinese Communist Party.

Source: Statement · baumgartner.house.gov

Data Centers

Positions on the development, regulation, or public impact of data center infrastructure as it relates to AI, including energy consumption and grid reliability concerns tied to AI workloads.

Sponsored legislation requiring AI data centers to cover the full cost of the power and water infrastructure they need, saying "no community should have a data center forced into it."

Source: Statement · opb.org

AI Preemption

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

Introduced the American Artificial Intelligence Leadership and Uniformity Act, which would impose a five-year moratorium on new state and local AI mandates and turn President Trump's AI executive order into specific regulations. Argued thar America will win by trusting "free people to innovate without asking the government for permission."

Source: Statement · baumgartner.house.gov