Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill strengthens technical and compliance vetting to improve broadband quality and reduce waste, but that stricter approach risks excluding new/small providers, slowing deployment, and raising compliance costs.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support for farmers, rural broadband, conservation, and food‑system resilience while increasing federal spending, administrative complexity, and regulatory shifts that could favor larger actors and weaken some environmental, local, and procedural protections.
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
The bill speeds and makes more transparent permitting for communications infrastructure on federal lands—helping rural broadband deployment and predictability—but raises risks of environmental harm, potential litigation, and shifted agency priorities.
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
The bill aims to speed and make more transparent communications authorizations on public lands—potentially improving rural broadband—while imposing some administrative costs and raising risks of local/environmental pushback and short-term coordination burdens.
Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act
The bill commissions an evidence-gathering study on satellite broadband that could improve connectivity and economic opportunity in rural ARC areas, but it introduces administrative costs and the risk of delaying on-the-ground broadband deployment while waiting for results.
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill seeks to attract and channel 'trusted' foreign investment and tighten screening to protect technology and supply chains, but does so by expanding Commerce's authority in ways that could limit investment from some countries, raise costs, and create regulatory uncertainty for firms.
DIGITAL Applications Act
The bill streamlines and clarifies how parties apply to install communications facilities on public lands—potentially speeding deployment and improving service—while raising equity concerns for digitally underserved people, fiscal costs, and environmental risks to public lands.
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens privacy, limits targeted advertising, and increases oversight for children and teens—giving families greater control and potential policy improvements—at the cost of higher compliance and operational burdens for online services (especially small businesses), legal uncertainty for operators, and possible reductions in features or access for youth.
Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act
The bill aims to speed communications infrastructure deployment and clarify permitting on federal lands, but progress may be delayed by study requirements, increase agency and taxpayer costs, and create environmental tradeoffs if safeguards aren't maintained.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI more safely by providing SBA-delivered, regularly updated voluntary guidance and cybersecurity best practices, but it relies on taxpayer-funded implementation and nonbinding recommendations that may leave some firms—especially resource-constrained or specialized ones—without adequate support.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases near‑term transparency, targeted funding, and program guidance to accelerate infrastructure, safety, and tribal priorities, but does so by imposing tighter congressional controls, administrative procedures, and policy restrictions that reduce agency flexibility, create legal and budgetary uncertainty, and may delay environmental, scientific, or programmatic actions.
MAPWaters Act of 2025
The bill creates standardized, publicly accessible geospatial data and clearer roles to improve safety, coordination, and conservation communication for waterways, but does so with new costs, reporting and implementation burdens, potential constraints on state flexibility and access, and risks to sensitive sites and data privacy.
EPermit Act
The bill aims to speed permitting and reduce duplication through standardized, interoperable data and a central digital portal—helping agencies and applicants while increasing transparency—but it raises significant near‑term costs, privacy/security and proprietary risks, and implementation challenges that could constrain agency flexibility and affect environmental oversight.
ASCEND Act
The bill expands NASA's and researchers' access to commercial Earth observation data and can accelerate science and services, but it risks higher costs, reduced vendor participation, and potential privacy/proprietary issues without strong procurement and privacy safeguards.
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill directs substantial new funding and program changes to expand prevention, treatment, and support for substance use and behavioral health—potentially improving access and capacity—while increasing federal spending, administrative requirements, and some legal/privacy risks that could complicate implementation and unevenly affect access across states.
ANCHOR Act
The bill clarifies which vessels qualify for U.S. Academic Research Fleet support and pushes coordinated communications and cybersecurity upgrades—improving research capability and resilience—but concentrates control, may exclude some non‑NSF or foreign‑flagged options, and could raise costs and administrative burdens for institutions and collaborators.
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
The bill strengthens federal monitoring, funding, and equity‑focused support to detect and respond to harmful algal blooms—improving public health protections for coastal, freshwater, and vulnerable communities—but does so with modest, time‑limited funds and new federal requirements that may strain local capacity, shift existing NOAA grant priorities, and alter how resources are allocated between national and local events.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial new resources to veterans, rural communities, and military readiness while increasing oversight and targeting supports, but it also creates procurement, procedural, and research restrictions and sizable near‑term spending that could raise costs, slow agency action, and constrain flexibility.
Recognizing the importance of trademarks in the economy and the role of trademarks in protecting consumer safety, by designating the month of July as "National Anti-Counterfeiting and Consumer Education and Awareness Month".
The resolution raises public awareness and encourages coordination to combat counterfeiting—helpful for consumer safety and brand protection—but is non‑binding, may shift costs onto businesses or taxpayers, and could risk diplomatic friction without providing enforcement authority or funding.
Open RAN Outreach Act
The bill helps small and rural providers modernize networks and boosts competition to potentially lower costs for consumers, at the trade-off of introducing potential Open RAN security/interoperability risks and modest additional federal resource costs.
NTIA Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act
The bill creates a new NTIA office to expand rural broadband, improve network security, and accelerate tech commercialization, at the trade‑off of potential industry‑tilted policymaking, centralized federal influence, privacy risks from published data, and added taxpayer costs.
Promoting United States Wireless Leadership Act of 2025
The bill boosts U.S. coordination and security-focused influence in global wireless standards, but does so by excluding some firms, risking politicized disputes with partners, and imposing modest taxpayer costs.
ITS Codification Act
The bill creates a government test lab and promotes federal spectrum sharing to spur commercial use, improve coordination, and support emergency tracking, while requiring new federal spending and risking security, oversight, and uneven rollout if controls and private-sector cooperation are insufficient.
To direct the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of the value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria.
The bill funds a study that could enable stronger connectivity, economic links, and more secure communications for the USVI and U.S. interests, but those benefits may require new federal spending, risk slower or costlier deployment due to trusted‑vendor constraints, and could produce incomplete or sensitive public disclosures.
Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2025
The bill creates federal leadership, guidance, and transparency to encourage responsible blockchain adoption and U.S. competitiveness, but it risks increased costs for small firms and taxpayers, stakeholder ambiguity, and potential industry influence or uneven security outcomes.
Recognizing June 2, 2025, as the 39th anniversary of C-SPAN chronicling democracy in the Senate.
The resolution encourages broader carriage of C-SPAN to improve public access and historical records of the Senate, but it is non-binding and risks the appearance of government favoring a particular private media outlet.
ANCHOR Act
The bill strengthens shipboard networking and cybersecurity for research fleets—boosting scientific capability and aligning with federal standards—while creating potential cost burdens for users, taxpayers, and small vessel owners and concentrating some operational risks.
NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2025
FUTURE Networks Act
The bill concentrates federal coordination to speed and standardize 6G rollout and risk mitigation, but does so with exclusionary authorities and tight timelines that may limit participation, transparency, and depth of analysis while creating modest administrative costs.
