Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act of 2026
This bill clarifies and standardizes access to expedited air‑travel screening—promoting equal treatment and clearer agency authority—while raising privacy and fairness concerns from expanded program definitions and TSA discretion, and imposing modest administrative and operational trade‑offs.
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,—
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.
ROTOR Act
The bill boosts aviation safety, oversight, and FAA–DoD coordination by expanding ADS‑B requirements, audits, and data sharing, but does so at significant cost and with real risks to operational flexibility, privacy/security, and legal adaptability.
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.
Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
The bill centralizes and standardizes federal software definitions, inventories, and oversight—producing clearer governance, potential cost savings, and better security—while imposing near-term costs, procurement constraints, vendor-market shifts, and some risks to classified handling and operational agility.
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.
NET Act
The bill increases FCC reporting on whether equipment availability slowed broadband deployment — providing policymakers and communities useful information without adding provider reporting burdens — but its impact may be limited because the FCC cannot compel additional data, risking incomplete analysis.
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.
Enhancing First Response Act
The bill increases transparency and data-driven support for emergency communications and public‑safety workforce planning—helping responders, governments, and consumers—while imposing new reporting, compliance, and administrative burdens on providers, manufacturers, and federal agencies.
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.
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.
Open RAN Outreach Act
The bill could help small communications providers learn about and access Open RAN options and grant programs, but without dedicated funding and clear security safeguards it risks delivering little practical support while imposing transition and security costs on providers and infrastructure.
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.
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.
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.
Precision Agriculture Satellite Connectivity Act
The bill directs the FCC to study and recommend satellite-rule changes to potentially boost precision-agriculture connectivity without new spending, but benefits may be delayed, uncertain if recommendations aren't implemented, and insufficient if non-satellite barriers remain.
ITS Codification Act
The bill creates a federally backed lab and public-private effort to accelerate lifesaving emergency communications and spectrum-sharing technology—improving rescue capability and government communications—while posing modest new federal costs and risks of reduced commercial flexibility and uneven competition.
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Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill increases assurance that federally funded broadband projects will be technically and financially sound and preserves competitive bidding, but it raises documentation and compliance barriers that could disadvantage small/new providers and slow deployment in some areas.
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.
Romance Scam Prevention Act
The bill speeds warnings and guidance to potential dating-site scam victims and creates enforcement avenues while encouraging provider action, but it raises risks of reputational harm from mistaken flags, weaker verification incentives, added provider costs that may fall on users, and limits on stronger state-level consumer protections.
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 boosts research-vessel capabilities, security, and crew health—benefiting scientists and institutions—but risks higher operating costs for universities, potential loss of local control, and delays tied to federal funding.
Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025
The bill creates a focused advisory structure and short-term payment protection to improve VA accessibility for veterans (especially those with disabilities) at the cost of modest taxpayer/VA expenditures and with a seven-year sunset that could end oversight unless renewed.
