Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act
The bill improves intelligence, strategy, and oversight to better target U.S. engagement in Georgia, but that increased focus can raise costs, risk diplomatic strain, and impose short-term burdens on agency resources.
Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies Act
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. and allied critical-mineral and energy security and spur private investment through new coordination, financing tools, and diplomatic capacity, but it increases federal spending, concentrates decision-making authority, and carries environmental, trade-retaliation, and commercial-confidentiality risks that may raise costs for taxpayers, businesses, and local communities.
Stop Illegal Fishing Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools (sanctions, asset blocks, and reporting) to deter illegal and forced-labor-linked fishing—aiming to protect fish stocks, maritime industries, and workers—but it raises meaningful economic, administrative, supply-chain, and diplomatic risks if enforcement is broad, costly, or misapplied.
Tehran Incitement to Violence Act
The bill strengthens congressional oversight and creates regular reporting that could help identify and sanction alleged Iran-linked actors, but it does so by publicly naming alleged actors and imposing ongoing reporting that risks diplomatic backlash, misinformation, reputational/legal impacts, and added administrative costs.
PROFIT Act of 2026
The bill centralizes and professionalizes U.S. commercial and economic statecraft to boost exports, supply-chain resilience, and sanction effectiveness, but it raises taxpayer costs and creates risks of politicization, geopolitical exposure for firms, and environmental trade-offs.
Block the Use of Transatlantic Technology in Iranian Made Drones Act
The bill seeks to better block Iran's drone and missile supply chains and protect U.S. forces and allies through coordinated controls, sanctions, and interdiction tools, but does so at the expense of higher compliance and administrative costs, potential supply‑chain disruption, reduced transparency, and some risk of escalation.
Ukraine Support Act
The bill boosts long‑term U.S. support for Ukraine and allied deterrence — increasing predictability for sanctions and financing and protecting humanitarian flows — at the cost of significant taxpayer exposure, higher economic and administrative burdens, potential trade frictions, and reduced flexibility that could complicate diplomacy or raise escalation risks.
Stop Stealing our Chips Act
The bill strengthens export-control enforcement and national security by incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers and speeding investigations, but it raises fiscal costs, administrative burdens, and confidentiality risks for businesses and taxpayers.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Save Our Shrimpers Act
The bill prevents U.S. IFI funds from supporting foreign shrimp aquaculture and adds GAO reporting to increase transparency, trading narrowed overseas funding for shrimp-related projects and greater oversight against possible economic ripple effects, reduced U.S. leverage at IFIs, and higher administrative costs.
Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes protecting U.S. persons and national‑security‑driven sanctions compliance from foreign judgment enforcement and liability, at the cost of reducing foreign parties' judicial remedies, increasing diplomatic friction and reciprocal risk, and creating new legal uncertainty for cross‑border commerce.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. detection, enforcement, and international cooperation to curb IUU fishing and forced labor—benefiting fish stocks, lawful fishers, and consumers—but does so with new spending, compliance costs, privacy and due‑process risks, and potential diplomatic and operational tradeoffs.
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 strengthens sanction-aligned tax policy and simplifies enforcement by denying U.S. tax benefits for Russian-government taxes, but it shifts increased tax burdens onto U.S. companies and potentially consumers and raises legal and treaty-reciprocity risks for multinational taxpayers.
Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
The bill strengthens U.S. energy supply-chain resilience and grid reliability through federal assessments and support, but that increased security comes with higher costs for taxpayers, higher compliance and project costs for industry, and the risk of local environmental impacts and market distortions.
BRAVE Burma Act
The bill strengthens U.S. pressure on the Myanmar junta and increases transparency and oversight, but it raises compliance and economic risks for firms, adds administrative burdens, and risks diplomatic friction that could blunt U.S. multilateral influence.
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
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
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.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial, targeted funding and tightens transparency and oversight—strengthening strategic foreign and some domestic programs and taxpayer protections—while imposing many new controls, earmarks, and restrictions that increase administrative burden, reduce executive flexibility, and raise near‑term fiscal costs.
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.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill delivers sizable boosts to defense readiness, industrial-base resilience, allied support, and service-member protections while substantially expanding reporting and control authorities—trading greater capability, transparency, and domestic industrial investment against higher costs, heavier administrative burdens, compliance friction for contractors, and new privacy and operational‑rigidity risks.
Commemorating 30 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam on July 11, 2025.
The resolution deepens U.S.–Vietnam ties—advancing veterans' remediation, trade, security, education, and immigrant inclusion—while trading off increased competition for some U.S. workers, potential taxpayer costs, and possible limits on human-rights leverage.
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 trades broader federal water-quality oversight and more stringent, flexible environmental review for faster permitting, lower compliance costs, and greater state and project‑proponent certainty — benefiting developers and some regulated entities while increasing pollution, legal limits on challenges, and potential costs and risks for downstream communities and taxpayers.
PORCUPINE Act
The bill speeds and streamlines U.S. defense transfers to strengthen Taiwan and improves oversight, but it increases risks of U.S.–China retaliation, possible inadvertent technology transfers, administrative strain, and creates temporary program uncertainty due to a seven‑year sunset.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. ability to disrupt transnational scam compounds and support victims through coordinated sanctions, asset actions, reporting, and targeted foreign assistance, while imposing new taxpayer costs, administrative burdens, compliance risks for businesses, and diplomatic risks — all under a seven-year sunset that creates future uncertainty.
No New Burma Funds Act
The bill increases pressure on Burma's military by pausing certain World Bank-related support to advance accountability, but that approach risks harming World Bank-funded development for Burmese civilians, reducing U.S. leverage in multilateral institutions, and creating diplomatic or economic costs for Americans.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. defense readiness, industrial capacity, veteran/family supports, housing recovery, and cybersecurity—at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative and compliance burdens, constraints on flexibility and some civil‑liberties/privacy tradeoffs, and potential disruptions to research and international economic ties.
