Section 702 / FISA surveillance
Congress is debating whether to extend Section 702 surveillance and whether the FBI should need a warrant before searching Americans' communications.
Take a stanceHousing bill would ease building rules and update federal housing programs
Big card issuers would have to give stores more payment-routing choices
Epstein
How Congress should handle public disclosure, oversight, and victim protections as the Epstein investigation files come under renewed scrutiny.
Big health firms would have to split provider and middleman businesses
What people are acting on
The issues driving the most constituent messages this week.
Meta & YouTube Child Safety Trials
The growing wave of verdicts and legal scrutiny around child-safety and social-media addiction harms.
Immigration and ICE
Epstein
How Congress should handle public disclosure, oversight, and victim protections as the Epstein investigation files come under renewed scrutiny.
In the news
News stories that connect to live legislation. Every briefing has an action.
Modi's party takes control of India's West Bengal in key state election
Video: Modi’s BJP poised to take control in India’s West Bengal (aljazeera); Modi's party takes control of India's West Bengal in key state election (npr)
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Two dead as car ploughs into crowd in Germany's Leipzig
Two dead as car ploughs into crowd in Germany's Leipzig (france24); Car ploughs into pedestrians in central Leipzig, Germany (aljazeera)
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US-led task force tells ships to reroute on first day of new effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
U.S.-led task force tells ships to reroute in new effort to reopen strait (spectrumlocalnews); US-led task force tells ships to reroute on first day of new effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (ap)
Take action on 4 billsThis week in Congress
What's actually being voted on, marked up, and debated — updated daily.
Bills you should know about
Substantive bills with broad relevance, real public attention, or meaningful movement in Congress.
Farm bills shape who gets federal farm help, how food aid works, and how rural communities get support. This bill would keep those programs running through 2031 and change several…
Housing is expensive in many places because too few homes get built, and this bill tries to remove some of the barriers that slow building down. It matters because even small dela…
Credit card payments often depend on networks chosen before the customer ever pays. This bill would give stores more say in that process for many cards. It could affect fees, paym…
This bill matters because many young people use apps, games, social media, and school tools that collect a lot of personal data, and current federal law does not fully cover teens…
This bill matters because it could change the rules for many of the apps and websites that kids and teens use every day. It tries to reduce serious harms and give families more co…
Many Medicare patients deal with obesity or weight-related health problems, and this bill could make treatment easier to get. It could open the door to more counseling options and…
This bill matters because it would change voter registration from a system that often relies on a sworn statement into one that requires citizenship paperwork. That could stop som…
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In the news across 35 outlets in the last 48 hours.
The bill matters because some large health care companies own both the care side and the payment or supply side. That can create a conflict when the same parent company can steer…