Biodefense Diplomacy Enhancement Act

HR137 — TCJA Permanency Act

Rewrite of individual income tax rates would remake brackets, reshape family tax benefits, and change rules for pass‑through businesses and the alternative minimum tax. The bill would permanently set new tax tables with inflation adjustments, overhaul the child tax credit and standard deduction framework, and make numerous conforming changes across the tax code.

HR7632 — SHADOW Act

Creates a State Department Coordinator to counter hybrid warfare. It would centralize threat assessment, boost allied information sharing, and help protect critical infrastructure from cyber, economic, and information attacks. - U.S. foreign policy planners: Would get a Chief Coordinator who must be named within 30 days and who would report findings to Congress annually for three years. The Coordinator would assess hybrid threats and recommend fixes for analytic and operational gaps. - Allies and partners: Would strengthen information sharing with NATO and with South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand to align attribution language, set shared red lines, and coordinate non-kinetic response options. - Critical sectors and private firms: Would support resilience and de-risking in energy, telecommunications, undersea infrastructure, and strategic materials to reduce exposure to cyberattacks, economic coercion, sabotage, and targeted information campaigns.

HR1422 — Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

Targets Iran's energy revenue through global sanctions. This bill would create a broad sanctions framework to punish foreign persons who process, export, or sell Iran-origin oil, condensates, gas, LNG, or petrochemical products. It pairs blocking of assets and visa bans with ownership-based triggers, waivers, humanitarian carve-outs, and new reporting to limit Iran's access to energy markets and finance for weapons and terrorism. - Foreign energy firms and financial institutions would face blocking of property and bans on transactions if they knowingly handle Iran-origin energy or are 50% or more owned by such actors. Associated aliens could become inadmissible and have visas revoked. - Maritime operators, insurers, flag registries, and LNG pipeline facilities would be exposed to sanctions risk when linked to Iran-origin shipments, though safety-of-crew rules and specific exemptions for imports remain. - Humanitarian organizations would keep explicit exemptions for agricultural commodities, food, medicine, medical devices, and humanitarian assistance to avoid disrupting aid. - U.S. agencies and private companies would see new duties: an interagency working group and multilateral contact group would coordinate enforcement, and private-sector reporting would be required to flag evasion and proceeds from intercepted Iran-origin energy sales.

HR5401 — Pay Our Troops Act of 2026

Guarantees continued pay for military personnel during a federal funding gap. This bill would create a temporary appropriation to keep pay and allowances flowing for active-duty service members and the civilians and contractors who directly support them if FY2026 regular appropriations are not in effect.

HR1151 — Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act

Would expand 529 plans to cover recognized postsecondary credentialing expenses. The bill would let 529 distributions pay for tuition, fees, books, required testing, and continuing education tied to industry credentials that meet the bill's criteria for recognition.

HR396 — TRUST in Congress Act

Require Members of Congress to place covered investments, and those of their spouses and dependent children, into qualified blind trusts. It would also require public certification when trusts are set up and limit control of trust assets for a short period after leaving office. - Members of Congress would need to transfer covered investments into a qualified blind trust within either 180 days after enactment or 90 days after taking office. - Spouses and dependent children must place covered investments in the Member's trust and may mix assets in the same trust. Investments tied to a spouse's or child's primary job pay are exempt. - After leaving Congress, a Member and their spouse or dependent child could not dissolve the trust or control trust-held investments for 180 days. - House Members must certify trust establishment to the Clerk and Senators must certify to the Secretary of the Senate within 15 days, and those certifications must be posted on the chamber websites. - "Covered investments" include securities, commodities, futures, and similar synthetic interests but exclude widely held investment funds and U.S. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds.