{
  "id": 1150172,
  "title": "How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (Anna Liss-Roy/Washington Post)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/how-congressional-lawmakers-and-aides-are-using-ai-tools-with-little",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-15T23:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/13/chatbots-are-doing-work-congress-with-little-oversight/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg2NjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4MDYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjQxNjU3NTQ1LWJlODEtNGUzZS05NDM2LWM4ODYyMWRlYjliMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA4LzEzL2NoYXRib3RzLWFyZS1kb2luZy13b3JrLWNvbmdyZXNzLXdpdGgtbGl0dGxlLW92ZXJzaWdodC8ifQ.LWoudW4Z_RDIXaxivuLIj-VARUg7yt3sk7EONX8DRLE&itid=gfta"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The amendment was one of hundreds filed this summer to an annual defense bill making its way through Congress.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}