--- title: "Richard Blumenthal: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Richard Blumenthal, United States Senator, Connecticut. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-richard-blumenthal source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Richard Blumenthal, Richard Blumenthal AI, Richard Blumenthal quotes, Richard Blumenthal statements, Richard Blumenthal on AI, what Richard Blumenthal said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Richard Blumenthal, United States Senator, Connecticut. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-richard-blumenthal The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Richard Blumenthal [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-richard-blumenthal) United States Senator, Connecticut · United States Senate ## Why now No headline this week names Richard Blumenthal. ## What they said 4 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Richard Blumenthal, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Oct 28, 2025 In the record "Big Tech has betrayed any claim that we should trust companies to do the right thing on their own when they consistently put profit first ahead of child safety." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [blumenthal.senate.gov](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-murphy-cosponsor-bipartisan-bill-protecting-children-from-ai-chatbots) - Sep 17, 2024 In the record "I challenge Big Tech to come forward and be constructive here." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [blumenthal.senate.gov](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-artificial-intelligence-regulation-featuring-insider-perspectives) - Jan 10, 2024 In the record "It is literally eating away at the lifeblood of our democracy, which as we all know is essential to local jobs, local accountability, local awareness and knowledge." [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [Economy](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-economy) · [blumenthal.senate.gov](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-the-hearing-on-ai-and-journalism) - Sep 12, 2023 In the record "Make no mistake, there will be regulation. The only question is how soon and what?" [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [blumenthal.senate.gov](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-legislating-artificial-intelligence) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Richard%20Blumenthal#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Stories naming Richard Blumenthal ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Sep 12, 2023 ["Make no mistake, there will be regulation. The only question is how soon and what?"](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-legislating-artificial-intelligence) - Jan 10, 2024 ["It is literally eating away at the lifeblood of our democracy, which as we all know is essential to local jobs, local accountability, local..."](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-the-hearing-on-ai-and-journalism) - Sep 17, 2024 ["I challenge Big Tech to come forward and be constructive here."](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-delivers-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-artificial-intelligence-regulation-featuring-insider-perspectives) - Oct 28, 2025 ["Big Tech has betrayed any claim that we should trust companies to do the right thing on their own when they consistently put profit first ah..."](https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-murphy-cosponsor-bipartisan-bill-protecting-children-from-ai-chatbots) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Richard Blumenthal. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Richard Blumenthal with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.