Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and streamlines SBIR/STTR programs and strengthens commercialization and security safeguards—helping many small firms scale and get to market faster—while increasing federal spending, concentrating benefits among established participants, adding compliance burdens, and delaying some
Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
The bill intensifies pressure on Iran’s oil- and petrochemical-driven financing—strengthening U.S. national security and enforcement—while trading off higher economic costs for American consumers and businesses, increased compliance and legal risks, and potential diplomatic and humanitarian side‑imp
No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act
The bill increases U.S. leverage, oversight, and protections for women and minorities by conditioning engagement and requiring reporting, but it risks disrupting humanitarian assistance, reducing diplomatic flexibility, exposing operational risks, and imposing administrative and potential fiscal costs.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military, industrial, and security capabilities and expands supports for service members and communities — but does so at the cost of large new spending, heavier administrative and compliance burdens, constrained operational flexibility in some cases, and notable privacy, environmental, and civil‑liberties trade‑offs.
Electric Supply Chain Act
The bill increases visibility into and resilience of grid component supply chains—potentially boosting domestic production, jobs, and national security—while imposing some federal administrative costs and risking short‑term higher component costs or slower deployment if restrictive responses are adopted.
Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act
The bill improves awareness, coordination, and actionable guidance on AI-enabled terrorism risks—but it is unfunded and nonbinding, so it may strain agency resources and raise privacy and surveillance tradeoffs without guaranteeing stronger protections or mitigation.
Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act
The bill forces a rapid, detailed DHS assessment to improve tracking and vetting of Syria-based terrorist affiliates—strengthening threat awareness and congressional oversight—but may strain agency resources, risk disclosure of sensitive intelligence, and lead to stricter screening for travelers and immigrants.
Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act
The bill strengthens and centralizes federal efforts and provides targeted risk assessments to better defend U.S. critical infrastructure from PRC-linked cyber threats, but it does so with reduced transparency, potential limits on sharing classified information with operators, added costs, and a narrow focus on a single adversary.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill makes large, coordinated investments to strengthen military readiness, the defense industrial base, cyber/AI defenses, and housing/disaster resilience while expanding oversight and support for service members — but it substantially increases federal spending, administrative burdens, restrictions on research and certain rights, and conditions that could delay operations or concentrate executive authority.
Congratulating the people of North Macedonia on the 34th anniversary of their independence and celebrating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between North Macedonia and the United States.
The resolution publicly reaffirms and deepens U.S.-North Macedonia alliance and coordinated policy against Russian aggression—strengthening NATO ties and capacity building—while carrying modest risks of signaling future costs to taxpayers and increasing geopolitical friction.
Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025
The bill aims to disrupt fentanyl supply chains and increase oversight and legal certainty for trade, but it does so at the cost of reduced rapid‑response flexibility, potential economic and supply‑chain harms, and risks of overbroad sanctions that could hurt lawful actors.
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.
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.
DETERRENCE Act
The bill raises penalties to deter and hold accountable crimes coordinated by foreign governments—strengthening protections for victims and public servants—but does so at the cost of higher incarceration and prosecutorial expenses and increased risks of broad prosecutorial discretion and uneven impacts on defendants, especially those with foreign ties.
Secure Our Ports Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. control over port operations to reduce foreign strategic influence and protect supply chains, but does so at the cost of limiting foreign investment and competition, which may raise costs, create compliance uncertainty, and risk diplomatic backlash.
DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act
The bill strengthens national-security protections and oversight by steering DHS funds away from programs tied to high-risk foreign entities, at the cost of disrupting academic programs, chilling benign collaborations, potential reputational harms, and added compliance costs for colleges and universities.
Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
The bill increases U.S. ability to name, document, and sanction perpetrators of forced organ harvesting and to protect victims, but it raises risks of diplomatic friction, administrative and compliance costs, and travel or rights impacts without guaranteed new funding or fully specified procedural safeguards.
Economic Espionage Prevention Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, reporting, and legal authorities to identify and disrupt PRC-to-Russia defense supply chains and economic espionage while providing some clarity to import rules — but it raises the risk of higher costs and compliance burdens for businesses, concentrated executive powers with due-process concerns, and potential diplomatic/intelligence trade‑offs.
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.
Research Security and Accountability in DHS Act
The bill strengthens DHS research-security and increases near-term oversight and interagency coordination, but does so at the cost of added compliance burdens, potential impacts on research collaboration and academic freedoms, and some additional federal spending.
Subterranean Border Defense Act
The bill increases reporting to strengthen detection and response to cross-border tunnels for law enforcement and border communities, at the cost of added federal administrative burden and a risk of revealing sensitive operational details.
Securing the Cities Improvement Act
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill boosts Coast Guard capacity, personnel supports, victim protections, and maritime/infrastructure modernization—but does so at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative burdens, and some tradeoffs in privacy, oversight, and regulatory flexibility.
Expressing the sense of the Senate in support of Operation Absolute Resolve.
The resolution strengthens U.S. justification to target Venezuelan criminal networks and reduce cocaine flows, but does so in ways that risk diplomatic escalation, economic fallout, and harsher treatment of migrants.
Commending the United States military action in Venezuela.
The resolution highlights an operation that could improve drug interdiction and legal accountability with limited immediate U.S. casualties, but it also raises significant risks of regional escalation, constitutional/oversight concerns, migration pressures, and politicization of U.S. institutions.
Honoring the service and sacrifice of United States Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and United States Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, who were tragically shot in Washington, D.C., in a targeted assault against United States service members on November 26, 2025.
The resolution formally honors and documents Specialist Beckstrom’s service—helping memorialization and record accuracy—but offers little concrete assistance while risking family privacy and raising expectations of additional federal action.
Recognizing the 250th birthday of the United States Navy.
The resolution offers symbolic national recognition and reassurance about the Navy’s roles, honoring service members and communities, but it creates no policy or funding changes and carries a small risk of being cited to support future defense spending.
Congratulating President Donald J. Trump for achieving peace in the Middle East.
The resolution publicly praises a former president’s diplomatic plan and signals U.S. engagement, which may boost legitimacy and investment sentiment, but it risks politicizing Congress, spreading contested factual claims, and creating unrealistic expectations without policy or funding commitments.
Recognizing the 74th anniversary of the signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines and the strong bilateral security alliance between our two nations in the wake of escalating aggression and political lawfare by the People's Republic of China in the South China Sea.
The resolution deepens U.S.-Philippine defense cooperation to boost deterrence, readiness, and cyber defenses in the Indo-Pacific, but does so at the cost of higher taxpayer spending, heightened risk of entanglement with China, and potential diplomatic and local community tensions.
