Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by sending timely shark-threat alerts to beachgoers, but risks alert fatigue and adds decision-making burdens for local emergency managers and regulators.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
This bill aims to create a comprehensive federal framework that promotes clearer classifications, custody protections, and pathways for legitimate digital‑asset activity to expand market participation and safety, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, carving out jurisdictional limits that risk oversight gaps, and creating tradeoffs that could reduce some investor protections and push activities offshore.
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026
The bill aims to improve 988 crisis response and accessibility through a coordinated study and committee while limiting near-term federal spending, but it risks delays, privacy trade-offs, operational disruption, and added costs that could fall on taxpayers, providers, or consumers.
Kari's Law Reporting Act
The bill directs the FCC to review MLTS/911 compliance and increase transparency—potentially improving emergency access and vendor accountability but requiring agency resources and possibly raising vendor compliance costs passed to customers.
First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, reporting, board representation, and outage/continuity capabilities to improve first-responder communications and accountability, but does so by centralizing authority and adding compliance and reporting requirements that could raise costs, slow non-emergency actions, and introduce privacy/security and governance trade-offs.
Mystic Alerts Act
The bill extends emergency-alert reach via satellite and creates technical standards while shielding providers from liability — trading broader, faster alert coverage for increased privacy risks, reduced legal accountability, voluntary coverage gaps, and some implementation costs.
Federal Broadband Deployment Tracking Act
The bill aims to speed and make more transparent communications authorizations on public lands—potentially improving rural broadband—while imposing some administrative costs and raising risks of local/environmental pushback and short-term coordination burdens.
Emergency Reporting Act
The bill increases transparency and study of 9‑1‑1 and broadband outages to improve resiliency and emergency response, but it creates compliance costs for providers and leaves gaps in public detail and the FCC's enforcement authority.
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.
To reauthorize the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.
The bill provides predictable, targeted federal funding and stronger regional data-sharing and governance for ocean observations—improving science and coastal coordination—while adding modest federal spending and imposing additional administrative and transitional burdens on agencies and projects.
DIGITAL Applications Act
The bill streamlines and clarifies how parties apply to install communications facilities on public lands—potentially speeding deployment and improving service—while raising equity concerns for digitally underserved people, fiscal costs, and environmental risks to public lands.
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, oversight, and predictable funding timelines for grants and some programs—potentially protecting taxpayer dollars and speeding certain starts—but does so by adding reporting requirements, legal ambiguities, and prescriptive limits that could slow urgent responses, strain grantees and agency staff, and raise costs for taxpayers.
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and public access to the evidence behind agency rules and creates correction pathways, but does so without new funding and with added procedural requirements that may raise costs, slow rulemaking, and pose privacy or proprietary disclosure challenges.
ACERO Act
The bill aims to strengthen wildfire response and responder coordination through NASA-led research and procurement limits that reduce security risks, but it could restrict access to affordable drones, raise privacy concerns, and divert or duplicate federal resources.
Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025
The bill speeds and simplifies undersea cable deployment (benefiting consumers, businesses, and rural broadband) while narrowing sanctuary-specific protections and oversight, increasing environmental and governance risks for sanctuary-dependent communities and public trust.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
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.
Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
The bill aims to save taxpayer money and improve government IT interoperability, security, and procurement transparency by standardizing software inventories and controls—but doing so requires near‑term agency costs, added administrative burdens, possible operational delays, and uncertain funding for implementation.
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.
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.
SBA IT Modernization Reporting Act
The bill strengthens SBA IT project management and cybersecurity oversight—improving accountability and reducing tech failures—at the cost of added administrative burden and potential procurement delays, with a risk that compliance-focused implementation could limit real improvements.
Strengthening Support for American Manufacturing Act
The bill sharpens federal focus, oversight, and targeted support for critical supply chains and manufacturing—improving coordination and resilience—while risking broader federal intervention, added compliance burdens, and potential taxpayer and implementation costs.
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.
ANCHOR Act
The bill strengthens and modernizes cybersecurity and telecommunications for research vessels and clarifies fleet eligibility—improving research capability and oversight—but does so in a way that will require new spending, could centralize sensitive functions, and may concentrate access and benefits among already-funded institutions at the expense of smaller programs.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. military readiness, domestic industrial capacity, and service member supports through sweeping investments and new authorities—but does so at the cost of substantial new federal spending, added bureaucracy, tighter restrictions on research and rights in some areas, and risks of procurement or operational tradeoffs and local disruptions.
Enhancing First Response Act
This bill improves 911 reliability and emergency-response data/visibility—helping families, businesses, and planners—but imposes short-term administrative burdens on federal agencies and could lead to downstream compliance costs for vendors and businesses.
Undersea Cable Control Act
The bill tightens protections and oversight for undersea cable supply chains and increases transparency to bolster national security, while imposing compliance and export constraints that could raise costs, complicate procurement, and delay projects.
Communications Security Act
The bill creates a durable, transparent advisory channel to strengthen communications security and resilience through regular expert input, but concentrates exclusion power in the FCC Chair and risks politicized membership decisions, lost technical expertise, and modest administrative costs.
Open RAN Outreach Act
The bill helps small and rural providers modernize networks and boosts competition to potentially lower costs for consumers, at the trade-off of introducing potential Open RAN security/interoperability risks and modest additional federal resource costs.
