Analilia Mejia's Record on AI

Analilia Mejia's Position on AI

Mejia's formal position on advanced AI has two parts. The superintelligence prohibition is a ban in the bill text. The advanced-AI pause is conditional, and it runs only until a new Department of Artificial Intelligence is staffed and safety rules are issued.

H.R. 10538 would prohibit developing, deploying, possessing, funding, importing or transferring superintelligence and systems with listed precursor characteristics. It would also pause advanced-AI training, modification, fine-tuning and unreleased deployment until that department is in place.

H.R. 9442 covers construction and upgrades at data centers. Once enacted, it would halt that work at new or existing covered AI data centers. The pause has no fixed one-year expiry, and it ends only after laws set product review, worker and benefit-sharing protections, utility and environmental protections, community approval, union labor standards and a no-subsidies condition.

Those laws would also have to expressly terminate the pause. The latest action in each inspected status record is a referral to committee.

The record does not establish opposition to all AI. The data center bill does not cover every server facility, because its alternative branch reaches facilities over 20 megawatts that have high-density rack power of at least 20 kilowatts or liquid or immersion cooling.

Background at a Glance

Mejia was born on August 19, 1977, which made her 49 years old on November 4, 2026. Her party is Democratic. Her current office is U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th district, a seat she won in the April 16, 2026 special election.

Her official biography describes her as a union organizer and director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance.

Background and Political Leaning

The House Historian's biography places her birth in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Her official biography describes her as the daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants.

The House Historian's biography lists a bachelor's degree from Rutgers in 2000. It also lists graduate degrees from Rutgers in public policy and administration and in labor and employment relations.

Her official biography lists work as a union organizer and as director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance. It also lists national political director for Sanders's 2020 campaign, a role as a Biden Labor Department official, and co-executive director of Popular Democracy.

The House Historian's biography records her as deputy director of the Labor Department Women's Bureau in 2021. She won the April 16, 2026 special House election, and the New Jersey Monitor later reported an Associated Press (AP) call for her first full term in the same district.

Statements and Actions on AI

The inspected sources include one campaign statement on AI. Her economy platform calls for a moratorium on new AI data centers, requires developers to cover electricity costs and supports clean-energy investment. These are campaign proposals, not enacted requirements.

She is also an original cosponsor of H.Res. 1642, introduced October 29, 2026. It expresses the sense of the House that Congress should not give extra funds or exceptional regulatory support to companies or financial institutions facing insolvency. The firms in view face acute stress in the AI market, and the resolution says Congress should support all harmed Americans instead.

Policies Supported and Opposed

Her formal AI policy record consists of three cosponsorships and one campaign platform. None of those measures is enacted in the inspected records.

The table also lists two House roll calls on AI-related bills. Mejia is not listed on either one, and both predate her House service.

Of the measures in the table, only the TAKE IT DOWN Act is law. The House passed it 409 to 2 on April 28, 2025, and it became Public Law 119-12 on May 19, 2025. The Senate passed it by unanimous consent on February 13, 2025, which is not a recorded individual roll call.

The enacted measure restricts knowing publication of nonconsensual intimate depictions, including specified digital forgeries made with AI or other software, subject to its conditions and exceptions. Covered platforms must set up a notice and removal process within one year of enactment and remove covered depictions within 48 hours of a valid request. It is a specific harmful-use restriction, not a ban on AI or synthetic media.

The House-passed text of the AI for Main Street Act would require small business development centers to help businesses evaluate and use AI. It covers training, outreach and topics such as cybersecurity and regulatory compliance, and Section 3 authorizes no additional funding. The bill was received in the Senate and referred to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee on January 26, 2026.

H.R. 10538 sets advanced AI at training compute beginning at 10^25 integer or floating-point operations, adjusted annually. It defines superintelligence to include broadly superhuman cognition or the capacity to destroy or disempower humanity. Advanced models would require predeployment approval, and the bill lists penalties of up to 20 years in prison for specified reckless violations.

Section 13(c)(3) of H.R. 10538 lets the Secretary waive the 10-year AI-industry employment bar for a non-policymaking individual who submitted to the Secretary information about a violation of Sections 8, 9 or 12. The waiver is discretionary and must be consistent with the department's protective purpose, so it does not give automatic immunity from every penalty.

H.R. 9442 treats facilities used for AI models at scale as covered data centers. It requires quarterly public Energy Department reports on financing, water, power, emissions, wastewater, cooling chemicals, noise, jobs, agreements and subsidies. Its verification powers include inspections and subpoenas, and it restricts computing-infrastructure exports for covered AI uses to entities in countries without comparable safeguards.

Neither roll call supplies a position for her. Her name does not appear on the Clerk's records for the January 20, 2026 roll call or the April 28, 2025 roll call, and she had not yet joined the House for either vote. Her absence is not an abstention or an opposition vote.

Current Office and the 2026 Election

Mejia currently holds the New Jersey 11th district seat she won in the April 16, 2026 special election. The New Jersey Monitor reported that the Associated Press (AP) called her first full-term race in the same district on November 3, 2026.

She was not new to the seat when the full-term race was decided, because she had already won the April 2026 special election.

Scope and Open Questions

Her cosponsored measures restrict superintelligence, advanced-AI work under a conditional pause and large AI data centers, and none is enacted. The enacted TAKE IT DOWN Act is a separate harmful-use restriction, and the House-passed AI for Main Street Act would help businesses use AI, but she did not vote on it.

H.R. 9442's pause would begin only upon enactment and would end only after the listed laws are in place.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Analilia Mejia support banning superintelligence?

Yes, formally. She is an original cosponsor of H.R. 10538, which would prohibit developing, deploying, possessing, funding, importing or transferring superintelligence and systems with listed precursor characteristics. Cosponsorship is a formal record, and the inspected status record shows the bill referred to committee with no enactment.

Did Analilia Mejia vote on the TAKE IT DOWN Act or the AI for Main Street Act?

Her name does not appear on the House roll calls for either measure. Both votes took place before she joined the House, so the absence is not an abstention or an opposition vote.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act became Public Law 119-12 on May 19, 2025. The AI for Main Street Act passed the House and was referred in the Senate, and no law entry is recorded for it.

Is Analilia Mejia against all artificial intelligence?

The record does not show that. Her formal actions target superintelligence, advanced-AI work under a conditional pause and large AI data centers. Her campaign platform also supports clean-energy investment, and the record does not establish opposition to every AI use.

Is Analilia Mejia's full-term win certified?

New Jersey Monitor reported an Associated Press call on November 3, 2026, for her first full term.