Josh Hawley: “It is absolutely vital that our rural communities have access, like everybody else, to regular postal service.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

We should start by suspending the gas tax, including the tax on diesel. We could take 20-30 cents off the top immediately by doing that.

I opened an investigation into OpenAI on Sept. 10 after its agents breached New York-based open-weight AI platform Hugging Face in July.

They don’t need any tax breaks. That’s just corporate welfare. They don’t need that stuff. If they want to build data centers, then they have to do it on their own dime.