[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 490 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 490
Affirming the critical importance of preserving the United States'
advantage in artificial intelligence and ensuring that the United
States achieves and maintains artificial intelligence dominance.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 6, 2025
Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. McCormick, and Ms. Klobuchar)
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations
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RESOLUTION
Affirming the critical importance of preserving the United States'
advantage in artificial intelligence and ensuring that the United
States achieves and maintains artificial intelligence dominance.
Whereas artificial intelligence (AI) will be one of the defining technologies of
the 21st century;
Whereas preserving American dominance in AI will allow the United States to hold
an advantage in military capabilities, economic might, scientific
achievement, and geopolitical influence, all of which will enable the
United States to shape the world's future on a foundation of democratic
values;
Whereas AI will unlock untold opportunities in nearly every sector in the global
economy, from healthcare to manufacturing, defense, energy, and finance;
Whereas AI is also a national security imperative, with the potential to reshape
military strategies, cybersecurity, and intelligence operations,
requiring both the United States Government and the private sector to
collaborate in preserving the technological superiority of the United
States;
Whereas the United States has historically led the world in AI research and
development, fostering a dynamic ecosystem of cutting-edge technologies
driven by the collaboration between government, academia, and the
private sector;
Whereas the global competition for AI supremacy is intensifying, with the
Government of the People's Republic of China making substantial
investments in AI research, development, and deployment with the stated
goal of becoming the world leader in AI by 2030 and leveraging state-
backed policies to accelerate AI adoption across various domains;
Whereas the White House AI Action Plan notes that ``just like we won the space
race, it is imperative that the United States win this race'' and
``achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global
technological dominance'';
Whereas AI dominance will be decided by relative strength across multiple
pillars, including talent, energy, and compute, with the United States
maintaining a clear lead in compute while China's investments have
yielded advantages in energy and talent;
Whereas United States chipmakers, working with manufacturers in Taiwan, produce
millions of United States-designed AI chips per year, while Chinese
chipmakers are projected to produce no more than 200,000 advanced chips
this year, according to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutinick, each of
which is far less powerful than AI chips designed in the United States;
Whereas United States companies produce 43 to 120 times more computing power
than their Chinese equivalent, taking into account both the number and
quality of United States-made chips, and United States chips are in
effect the only true option for training advanced AI systems such that
even leading Chinese firms use United States-produced chips;
Whereas China--despite more than a decade of major Chinese indigenization
efforts and more than $200,000,000,000 in investments since 2014--has
struggled to produce advanced AI chips and therefore has to rely on
smuggling or legal exports of advanced chips from the United States;
Whereas export controls on advanced chips, chip design software, tools, and
manufacturing equipment have denied the Government of the People's
Republic of China the opportunity to develop domestic chipmaking
capabilities and capture significant market share of global AI
infrastructure;
Whereas it is essential that the United States remain the world's hub for AI
development, training, inference, and innovation; and
Whereas preserving the United States lead in AI will require ensuring United
States AI companies can access the energy, compute, and talent they
require: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate--
(1) affirms that the preservation of the United States'
primacy in artificial intelligence is a national imperative
that is critical to maintaining our global leadership, economic
prosperity, and national security;
(2) commends the White House AI Action Plan, including its
recognition that ``advanced AI compute is essential to the AI
era, enabling both economic dynamism and novel military
capabilities'' and that ``denying our foreign adversaries
access to this resource, then, is a matter of both geostrategic
competition and national security'';
(3) applauds United States Government efforts to deny the
Government of the People's Republic of China access to advanced
chips and chipmaking equipment, and affirms the importance of
continuing these efforts;
(4) recognizes that efforts of the Government of the
People's Republic China to close the AI gap and leap ahead of
the United States in developing frontier AI models, and deploy
Chinese AI models for the world to use and build on, present a
clear and imminent threat to the United States, and that
China's self-acknowledged inability to make and access
computing power is the main impediment to its progress;
(5) emphasizes that the world's most powerful
supercomputers and next generation of AI models must be built
in the United States and by United States companies;
(6) calls on the United States Government to ensure that
United States companies maintain priority access to the
cutting-edge AI chips they require to build frontier AI models
and are not deprioritized in favor of buyers in China or other
arms-embargoed countries;
(7) emphasizes the importance of exporting the full United
States AI stack--which includes United States AI chips, cloud
infrastructure, and models--to allies and partners, while
restricting access to the most sophisticated chips and models
that United States adversaries may seek to use against the
United States, whether by enforcing export controls and
countering illegal chip diversion or by strategically limiting
legal exports of advanced chips to adversary countries; and
(8) asserts the need to prioritize investments in the
energy, telecommunications, and physical infrastructure
necessary to enable widespread adoption of AI technology.
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