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.
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
HONOR Act
The bill stops U.S. tax credits for Russian taxes to keep revenue domestic and align tax policy with sanctions, but it raises U.S. tax bills for firms with Russian activity and creates treaty and compliance frictions.
BRAVE Burma Act
The bill strengthens U.S. leverage, transparency, and humanitarian engagement to pressure Myanmar’s junta and support victims, while imposing fiscal and administrative costs, raising risks of diplomatic friction and potential escalation that could complicate aid and economic ties.
PROTECT Taiwan Act
The bill gives U.S. regulators a tool to curb PRC influence and promote U.S.-style financial rules, but that approach risks regulatory fragmentation, diplomatic blowback, and added costs for banks and taxpayers.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
This bill combines substantial new funding priorities for defense, foreign assistance, health, and infrastructure with broad transparency and accountability measures — but does so while imposing many reporting requirements, limits on agency flexibility, rescissions, and compliance costs that raise spending pressures, could slow rapid responses, and shift burdens onto agencies, providers, and recipients.
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.
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.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency and funds a wide array of national-security, foreign‑aid, and global‑health programs while imposing large mandated spending floors and many procedural limits that raise taxpayer costs, add administrative burdens, and reduce agency and diplomatic flexibility.
Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act
The bill restores and clarifies preferential tariff treatment for Haitian apparel—lowering costs for importers, consumers, and Haitian exporters and providing refunds for a limited window—while imposing volume caps, a stricter eligibility threshold, a 2028 sunset, and modest budgetary and competitive costs that concentrate benefits and risks among small importers, Haitian suppliers, and certain U.S. manufacturers.
Remote Access Security Act
The bill strengthens national security and clarifies government authority over remote access to controlled technologies while increasing compliance costs, legal risk, and the potential for operational disruption or slower rulemaking that could dilute or delay protections.
AGOA Extension Act
The bill preserves trade preferences and short-term fee stability to give importers and AGOA partners predictable, near-term relief and the ability to recover some past duties, while increasing federal outlays, creating administrative burdens for retroactive payments, and intensifying competition that can harm some U.S. producers.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy protections, oversight, and targeted supports (notably for veterans and local fire response) and strengthens some procurement and foreign‑policy efforts, but does so while adding new reporting and administrative requirements and exposing taxpayers to increased, often open‑ended federal spending and compliance 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.
Commemorating 30 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam on July 11, 2025.
The resolution strengthens U.S.-Vietnam ties—boosting security cooperation, trade, education, and recognition of immigrant communities—while requiring continued taxpayer support and potentially reducing leverage on human-rights issues and creating economic competition for some U.S. workers.
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.
PERMIT Act
The bill prioritizes faster, cheaper permitting and greater regulatory certainty for farmers, developers, and state agencies, but does so by narrowing federal oversight and public review in ways that raise substantial risks to water quality, public health, ecosystem protections, and potential costs to local communities and taxpayers.
PORCUPINE Act
The bill aims to speed and clarify U.S. defensive support to Taiwan and build predictable oversight and sunset limits, trading off increased geopolitical tensions, higher fiscal and administrative costs, and risks that faster review timelines could weaken vetting or reduce future policy flexibility.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, coordination, and victim support to disrupt offshore scam compounds and recover funds, but does so at the cost of heightened diplomatic friction, privacy and due‑process risks, increased public and private-sector costs, and uncertainty from time-limited authorities.
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.
Expressing condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of religious minority groups, including Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists and the detention of Pastor "Ezra" Jin Mingri and leaders of the Zion Church, and reaffirming the United States' global commitment to promote religious freedom and tolerance.
This resolution strengthens and documents U.S. condemnation of religious persecution in China—giving policymakers moral and evidentiary grounds to press for sanctions or aid—while risking increased diplomatic and economic friction with China and raising expectations without creating binding obligations.
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.
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
The bill gives U.S. authorities faster, more targeted tools and clearer oversight to disrupt Haitian criminal networks and protect aid and trade, but it also raises significant risks to immigrants' due process, diplomatic cooperation, business compliance and legal exposure, and creates short-term uncertainty due to a five-year sunset.
Uyghur Policy Act of 2025
Undersea Cable Control Act
The bill strengthens U.S. national security and supply‑chain resilience for undersea cables and increases U.S. influence in standards-setting, but does so at the cost of higher compliance and procurement costs, possible trade frictions, and risks of misidentifying firms tied to foreign adversaries.
Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act
The bill strengthens congressional oversight and gives policymakers useful export‑control data to spot enforcement gaps, but increases risks to sensitive investigations, potential reputational harm for named parties, and implementation costs for Commerce.
Rescissions Act of 2025
The bill cancels large unobligated foreign‑assistance balances to free up near‑term federal budget room and reduce projected obligations, but does so by cutting sizable amounts from development, health, humanitarian, disaster‑response, climate, and public broadcasting programs — trading fiscal flexibility for diminished overseas assistance and related diplomatic, humanitarian, and community services.
China Financial Threat Mitigation Act of 2025
The bill improves transparency and policymaker tools to identify and mitigate U.S. exposure to Chinese financial and data risks—boosting market resilience and informed decision-making—while creating risks of diplomatic friction, market volatility, and potential costlier regulations and taxpayer-funded compliance.
Financial Technology Protection Act of 2025
