Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, data, and international cooperation to reduce illegal fishing and forced labor—bolstering fisheries sustainability and supply‑chain integrity—but does so at the cost of higher enforcement and diplomatic risks, greater compliance burdens for seafood businesses, and increased federal spending.
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.
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens privacy, security, and oversight for children, teens, and families—reducing targeted advertising and increasing transparency—but does so at the cost of added compliance burdens and costs for businesses (especially small ones), possible reduced access to some services for users,—
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill directs substantial new federal support, coordination, and regulatory changes to speed housing production, preserve and repair affordable units, and strengthen tenant/homeowner protections—especially for disaster-affected and low-income households—but it does so while easing some environmental and procedural safeguards, increasing administrative burdens and funding uncertainty, and creating trade-offs that may dilute resources or disrupt markets.
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency by forcing agencies to publish evidence, guidance, and—when allowed—open data to support rulemaking, but it does so without new funding and raises privacy and implementation-capacity risks that could burden agencies and affected individuals.
ASCEND Act
The bill expands public-sector access to commercial high-resolution Earth imagery and favors U.S. suppliers to support the domestic space industry, but increases privacy/national-security risks, may harm vendor business models or raise costs, and adds administrative reporting burdens.
AI–WISE Act
The bill provides free, standardized AI training and privacy guidance to help small businesses adopt AI responsibly while avoiding new federal spending, but that budget constraint risks underfunding implementation, shifting agency resources, leaving digitally underserved businesses behind, and reducing advisory transparency.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill promotes AI adoption by small businesses with training and clearer definitions while preventing new federal spending — but its prohibition on additional appropriations risks undercutting implementation, shifting costs onto taxpayers or other programs, and leaving rural or vulnerable firms without adequate support or safeguards.
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.
Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens FMC oversight, stakeholder input, data protections, and near-term port funding while increasing confidentiality barriers and compliance requirements that could reduce transparency, impose costs on smaller shippers and carriers, and concentrate agency discretion.
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.
ADS for Mental Health Services Act
Requires large digital platforms to report PSA activity and estimated ad value to boost transparency and visibility of free/local mental‑health resources, at the cost of compliance expenses, added privacy risks, exemptions for smaller platforms, and a limited 5‑year duration.
ASCEND Act
The bill expands NASA's ability to acquire and share commercial Earth‑observation data—boosting research, government operations, and U.S. space vendors—while creating potential taxpayer costs and limits on data access or downstream commercial reuse due to domestic sourcing preferences and vendor licensing.
Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
This bill increases regulatory clarity, pediatric and transplant-focused initiatives, and transparency that can improve access and oversight, but it does so while raising federal costs, imposing new administrative burdens, and introducing risks that could delay pediatric data, weaken enforcement incentives, and shift incentives for drug developers.
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.
Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency about foreign ties in the broadband and communications sector to reduce national-security risks and improve procurement decisions, but it may raise costs, harm some companies' reputations, and weaken paperwork/privacy oversight with downstream effects on prices and competition for consumers.
Improve the safety and security of Members of Congress, immediate family members of Members of Congress, and congressional staff.
The bill strengthens privacy protections for Members, designated congressional employees, and their families by enabling fast removals, restricting data-brokering, and creating an enforcement route, but it also raises compliance costs, legal uncertainty, and potential chilling effects on journalism and public records use.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and clarifies federal oversight—providing stronger custody, disclosure, and AML safeguards and a statutory pathway for some token classifications—while imposing substantial compliance burdens, preempting state rules, creating transitional uncertainty, and leaving protection gaps for non‑brokered crypto users that could harm small firms, some investors, and market liquidity.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
GENIUS Act
The bill sharply increases consumer safety, AML/sanctions capabilities, and regulatory clarity for payment stablecoins but does so by concentrating issuance among regulated banking entities, imposing heavy compliance and surveillance regimes, and restricting many non‑bank and foreign options—trading broader access and innovation for stronger oversight and stability.
Consumer Safety Technology Act
The bill aims to promote regulatory clarity, fraud detection, and agency transparency around tokens and marketplace hazards but does so by centralizing authority, expanding definitions, and deploying AI and studies in ways that could raise costs, delay action, risk privacy and accuracy, and shift enforcement burdens.
Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act
The bill improves federal understanding and oversight of mobile-network cybersecurity and could prompt stronger protections, but does so with limited public technical transparency, a narrowed scope that excludes 5G and some emerging vulnerabilities, and modest administrative costs.
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. supply-chain resilience and prioritizes domestic and emerging-technology production through federal coordination and support, but it raises federal costs, may increase consumer prices, reduces some transparency, and creates funding and timing uncertainties that could limit effectiveness.
Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2025
The bill aims to boost U.S. advanced-technology competitiveness and supply-chain resilience by steering FDI toward 'trusted' partners and strengthening data/IP protections, but it risks higher compliance costs, regulatory uncertainty, politicized investor treatment, and potential foreign retaliation that could harm exporters, consumers, and investment flows.
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.
DETERRENT Act
The bill increases transparency and national-security protections around foreign funding and investments in higher education, but does so at the cost of substantial compliance burdens, privacy and safety risks, potential reductions in foreign-supported research, and the possibility of severe institutional penalties that could harm students and programs.
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
The bill increases transparency and clarity around federal disaster assistance—making it easier for governments, researchers, and affected households to track and access funds—but imposes new administrative burdens, potential privacy/security risks, and broader compliance requirements on agencies and recipients.
Declaring racism a public health crisis.
The resolution brings important federal attention and better data focus to racial and intersectional health disparities, but it offers no funding or mandates and may burden health agencies and provoke political backlash, limiting near-term impact.
Supporting the designation of May 10, 2025, as "National Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Mental Health Day".
The bill could improve mental-health access, suicide prevention, and culturally tailored services for AANHPI communities but will require funding, workforce investment, and strong privacy safeguards to avoid costs, capacity shortfalls, and disclosure risks.
