Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act
The bill commissions an evidence-gathering study on satellite broadband that could improve connectivity and economic opportunity in rural ARC areas, but it introduces administrative costs and the risk of delaying on-the-ground broadband deployment while waiting for results.
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
The bill aims to protect taxpayers and strengthen benefit-program integrity by making benefit-fraud convictions a bar to immigration relief, but it risks deterring eligible immigrants from seeking needed benefits, imposing permanent immigration penalties (including for minor or admitted conduct), raising due-process concerns, and increasing enforcement burdens and costs.
Reliable Power Act
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.
Electric Supply Chain Act
The bill increases visibility into and resilience of grid component supply chains—potentially boosting domestic production, jobs, and national security—while imposing some federal administrative costs and risking short‑term higher component costs or slower deployment if restrictive responses are adopted.
Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act
The bill increases federal transparency and oversight of foreign funding in schools—helping detect foreign influence and informing parents—while imposing new reporting burdens, privacy risks, and potential chilling effects that could reduce beneficial international partnerships, especially for smaller districts.
Ensuring that the adoption and foster care system in the United States is child-centered and compassionate and that young people aging out of foster care are provided with adequate support and resources to transition successfully to independent adulthood.
The resolution raises awareness and urges accountability and supports for children in foster care and those aging out, but it is nonbinding and may impose administrative burdens or shift responsibilities without delivering funding or concrete services.
REFINER Act
The bill funds an evidence-based assessment that could help expand domestic refinery capacity and improve fuel reliability and jobs, but it also risks being used to justify weakening environmental safeguards and entrench fossil-fuel infrastructure, with modest taxpayer costs.
National Coal Council Reestablishment Act
The bill creates a transparent, DOE-linked coal advisory council that brings industry expertise into policy decisions but risks entrenching coal influence and diverting focus from clean-energy priorities.
GRID Power Act
The bill strengthens federal clarity and speeds prioritization/interconnection of dispatchable resources to improve near-term grid reliability, but it raises compliance costs, limits some local flexibility, and risks biasing investment away from variable renewables with attendant legal and economic frictions.
