Ernst, Joni
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Chair · Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
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Hearings to examine rogue AI, focusing on securing the homeland against AI agents.
Sep 30, 2026
91:51
Ernst, Joni. Thank you, everyone, for being here today. I think all of us are learning a lot through this conversation, and we're glad to have this opportunity. We recognize every single day that AI is out there, or superintelligence, whatever we're going to call it next. I would say a lot of these systems are u...
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Hearings to examine the nominations of William Toti, of Florida, to be Under Secretary of the Navy, and Richard Breckenridge, of New Hampshire, and Arthur Miller, of the District of Columbia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, all of the Department of Defense.
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Hearings to examine the nominations of Michael LoSapio, of New Jersey, to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chamberlain, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Government Ethics, Robert Steffens, of Texas, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, Jeffrey Zisk, of Texas, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, Maria D' Avanzo, of New York, to be Inspector General, General Services Administration, Dennis Kirk, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Interior, Mark Priebe, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Education, Robert Steinau, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Eric Sebastian Glover, Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez, Roman Marian Chaban, Bernard Michael Desrosiers, all of the District of Columbia, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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Hearings to examine the nomination of Hung Cao, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy.
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Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
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Hearings to examine the nominations of Gregory Ibach, of Nebraska, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, and Carl Bednarski, of Michigan, John Grunewald II, of Oklahoma, and James Russell Middleton, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration.
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Business meeting to consider the request to direct Senate Legal Counsel to file an application seeking immunity.
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Oversight hearings to examine small business programs in review, focusing on the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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● SPOKEHearings to examine rogue AI, focusing on securing the homeland against AI agents.
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To receive a closed briefing on an update on the budget of the Department of Defense.
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To receive a closed briefing on cyber operations and readiness for the second and third quarters of Fiscal Year 2026 as well as an update on election security.