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U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

Type
Government body
Place
United States — United States (federal legislature)
Last checked
2026-09-22
Next check due
2027-03-21

Named seats

  • Brian Babin — chair, R, TX · Checked 2026-09-22
  • Zoe Lofgren — ranking, D, CA · Checked 2026-09-22

Official, up-to-date list of members Verified

Ways to reach them

  • Committee 'Email Us' contact form · Web form
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    General correspondence; the page also offers press inquiries, a mailing-list signup and a whistleblower portal.

    VERIFIED — the contact page was fetched and lists these options.

  • Whistleblower reports portal · Web form
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    For insiders reporting wrongdoing within agencies or programmes in the committee's jurisdiction — including, potentially, federal AI programmes.

    VERIFIED as listed on the contact page; the portal's own deep link was not separately fetched.

  • Committee office · Call for evidence
    2321 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC 20515 — 202-225-6371 (fax 202-226-0113)
    Verified · 2026-09-22

    Phone and post.

    VERIFIED on the contact page.

  • Homepage · Homepage
    Unchecked
  • Public submission route · Written submission
    Verified · 2026-09-22

What it does

House committee of jurisdiction for NIST (and therefore CAISI), DOE Office of Science, NSF and federal AI R&D. Authorises NIST's AI programmes, conducts oversight hearings, and has produced the main House bills to put the US AI institute on a statutory footing. Can subpoena and compel testimony; cannot fine or adjudicate.

Its AI responsibilities

Non-defense federal R&D. Owns NIST (and therefore CAISI), NSF, OSTP, NASA, and the civilian side of DOE including the national labs. Send here: AI standards and measurement science, AI testing and evaluation methods, AI safety research funding, the National AI Research Resource, AI workforce and education, AI incident and flaw reporting, and federal AI R&D coordination. In the 119th Congress this committee has produced more reported AI legislation than any other House committee.

Its powers

compel

Honest assessment

The whistleblower portal is the genuinely distinctive route here and is taken seriously — committee investigative staff follow up on credible insider accounts about federal programmes. The general email form is a low-yield channel. For legislative influence, the leverage is with the named subcommittee staff on Research and Technology, and with members' personal offices; a constituent request for a meeting outperforms any committee-level correspondence.

Current business

VERIFIED: full-committee markup of ten AI bills on 25 Jun 2026 — H.R.9341 AI-Ready Federal Data Guidelines Act; H.R.9363 AI Security and Innovation Act; H.R.2385 CREATE AI Act (Obernolte), reported 29-0; H.R.5351 NSF AI Education Act of 2025 (Fong), reported 33-0; H.R.5584 LIFT AI Act (34-1); H.R.6461 READ AI Models Act; H.R.8893 Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act; H.R.9333 AI Flaw Reporting and Security Enhancement Act; H.R.9334 Workforce for AI Trust Act; H.R.9372 Data Infrastructure Energy Measurement and Standards Act (34-1). Nine were favorably reported. Also: Research and Technology Subcommittee hearing 'Advancing America's AI Action Plan' with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, 14 Jan 2026, 2318 Rayburn.

Public route

VERIFIED: https://science.house.gov/contact, 202-225-6371. Minority: https://democrats-science.house.gov/.

Notes

Because it authorises NIST, this committee — not a safety agency — is where the legal status and funding of CAISI is actually decided.

Research note

Chair/ranking verified 2026-09-22 from the House Clerk's MemberData.xml. If you care about AI evaluation capacity and standards, this committee plus Appropriations CJS is the pair that matters.

Sources

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