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The bill reduces risk of foreign-adversary influence in federal rulemaking by allowing exclusion of commenters tied to designated governments, trading off broader restrictions on participation, added agency discretion, and potential economic harm to U.S.-linked businesses.
Federal agencies and the public will face a reduced risk of foreign-adversary influence on sensitive rulemaking because agencies can exclude commenters tied to designated hostile foreign governments.
Nationals, firms, or other parties from designated countries will lose the ability to submit comments or petitions on U.S. rulemakings, limiting their participation in regulatory processes.
U.S.-based subsidiaries, dual nationals, and companies with ties to designated governments may be broadly barred from participating in rulemaking, potentially harming businesses and creating compliance headaches.
Federal agencies will gain discretion to exclude commenters based on Commerce Department designations, which may reduce transparency, increase administrative burdens defending exclusions, and concentrate decision authority.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars participation in federal notice-and-comment rulemaking and petitions by foreign governments, nationals, and entities designated as foreign adversaries by the Commerce Secretary.
Official title: To prohibit public comments from governments and individuals designated as foreign adversaries.
Introduced December 10, 2025 by Barry Moore · Last progress December 10, 2025
Prohibits certain foreign governments, nationals, and entities from taking part in federal notice-and-comment rulemaking or petitioning agencies if the Commerce Secretary has designated the government a “foreign adversary.” It amends the Administrative Procedure Act to add a new exclusion and preserves any existing exceptions referenced elsewhere in the law. The change stops designated foreign adversaries and their nationals or entities incorporated under them from submitting comments, petitions, or other participatory filings in agency rulemaking processes, relying on the Commerce Department’s existing foreign-adversary designation framework.