Esse quam videri
To be, rather than to seem
To direct the Commandant of the Coast Guard to update the policy of the Coast Guard regarding the use of medication to treat drug overdose, and for other purposes.
The bill improves maritime safety and Coast Guard readiness by clarifying onboard drug offenses and expanding naloxone access and oversight, but it risks narrowing prosecutorial reach, adding costs, raising privacy concerns, and leaving some units with inadequate naloxone access.
MTS CYBER Act of 2026
The bill strengthens federal oversight and coordination of maritime cybersecurity—reducing major trade disruption risk and clarifying coverage—but likely raises taxpayer costs and compliance burdens for ports, businesses, and subnational governments while creating potential delays and coordination challenges.
PRESS Act
The bill strengthens prosecutors' ability to disrupt cross-border drug supply chains and reduce illegal drugs in the U.S., but it expands criminal exposure abroad—raising civil liberties concerns, compliance burdens for legitimate businesses, and potential fiscal costs.
To designate the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia as the "Donald J. Trump International Airport".
The bill standardizes the airport's official name—improving clarity and legal consistency—at the cost of modest replacement expenses and potential administrative burden and public controversy.
Protecting Children from Foreign Mutilation Act
The bill increases oversight and reduces opportunities for foreign providers to offer gender‑transition treatments to minors, but in doing so it risks restricting legitimate medical access, enabling potential criminalization and discrimination of transgender care, and creating due‑process and privacy harms for foreign providers and travelers.
Kidd’s Stuttering Act
The bill expands screening, telehealth access, and guaranteed Medicaid/CHIP coverage for stuttering treatment—improving early detection and reducing family costs—while creating new state program costs and administrative burdens that could produce uneven access in some areas.
Foreign Robocall Elimination Act
The bill strengthens federal coordination, enforcement tools, and private-sector data sharing to reduce unlawful robocalls—likely cutting fraud for many Americans—but it does so at the cost of new government resources, potential barriers and costs for smaller providers, and privacy/legal risks from immunity and data publication protections.
ALCATRAZ Act
The bill gives states near-term funding and centralized federal coordination to cover detention-related costs and logistics, but does so by redirecting FEMA shelter funds and enabling expanded detention capacity while imposing administrative burdens and creating pressure to cut other programs.
Ban on Inkless Directives and Executive Notarizations Act of 2025
The bill trades stronger rule-of-law and clearer limits on who can validly sign presidential instruments for the risk of retroactive invalidation, legal instability for affected individuals and programs, and greater delay and administrative cost in executing executive actions.
CURE Act
The bill increases transparency and faster performance reporting for federal behavioral‑health grants, improving oversight and program visibility, at the cost of added administrative burden, potential diversion of staff from services, and privacy risks from more detailed disclosures.