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AI deepfakes in elections
Federal election rules should limit realistic AI fakes that could mislead voters about candidates while still protecting lawful political speech.
Regulation of deceptive AI-generated media in elections
Legislation aimed at prohibiting the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media involving federal candidates, with remedies for affected candidates.
Technology standards for deepfake detection in political ads
Development and implementation of technology standards to detect and manage the use of deepfakes in political advertising, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Disclosure rules for AI-generated political ads
Policies requiring clear and conspicuous disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements to ensure voters are informed about the nature of the content they are viewing.
Community supervision and who can run detention
Immigration policy should rely less on private detention and more on community-based supervision, especially for children.
Alternatives to Detention and Community-Based Supervision
Community case management, release presumptions, bond review, least-restrictive conditions, limits on electronic monitoring, and proposals to reduce or end detention and replace it with services.
Private Contractors, Local Facilities, and Facility Accountability
Rules for private detention contracts, contracted or non-DHS facilities, local jails, facility penalties, contract disclosure, and whether detention or supervision should be run by government, nonprofits, or for-profit companies.
Community supervision and who can run detention
Immigration policy should rely less on private detention and more on community-based supervision, especially for children.
Company duties in secret surveillance
Companies should only be forced to help with secret surveillance under clear rules, court oversight, and notice to Congress.
Section 702 sunset extension duration and conditions
Congress must decide whether to pass a short-term stopgap, a multi-year clean extension like S.4344's three-year proposal, or attach reform conditions before reauthorizing the surveillance program.
Limits on government buying personal data from brokers
Reform proposals would close a loophole where agencies buy commercially available information rather than obtain a warrant, restricting how government can acquire sensitive location, financial, and communications data.
Warrant rules for FBI searches of Americans' communications
A federal court has held that Fourth Amendment protections apply to these searches; Congress could codify a statutory warrant requirement, create an administrative warrant process, or leave the rule to further litigation.
Data Center Electricity Cost Allocation Policy Area
Data centers should pay directly for the grid upgrades and electricity costs they create, rather than spreading those costs to households and other businesses.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Clean power for data centers and crypto mining
Decide whether large data centers and crypto mining sites should use cleaner power, supply more of their own electricity, or pay for pollution from their energy use.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Data Center Grid Access Regulation Policy Area
The federal government should regulate how large data centers connect to the electric grid to protect reliability and affordability for other customers.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Clean power for data centers and crypto mining
Decide whether large data centers and crypto mining sites should use cleaner power, supply more of their own electricity, or pay for pollution from their energy use.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Executive branch ethics and transparency
Top executive branch officials should face stronger ethics, anti-corruption, and transparency rules while using public office.
Government Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
Broader accountability measures that overlap with lobbying concerns, including congressional investments, official perks, presidential and executive-branch ethics, watchdog protections, and donation-related conflicts.
Presidential Accountability and Anti-Corruption Rules
Rules on presidential criminal accountability, pardons, emoluments, financial disclosure, legal defense funds, and conflicts involving personal gain from public office.
Transparency in outside political spending
Bills and policy choices about disclosure, donor reporting, and transparency for outside political spending.
Foreign money in election work
Foreign money should be kept out of election work, including voter outreach and help with running elections.
Donor Privacy and Political Influence Spending
Adjacent campaign-finance and nonprofit-donor rules covering dark money, donor disclosure, donor privacy, political ad labels, and foreign money in ballot measures or election activity.
Registration requirements for foreign lobbying
Regulations that would tighten the registration requirements for foreign lobbying activities to ensure transparency and compliance.
Foreign money in politics
Foreign sources should face strict limits on spending money to influence U.S. elections, ballot questions, and federal judge nominations.
How House district lines are drawn
Rules for drawing congressional district maps should make representation fairer and reduce political control over the process.
Court challenges to unfair district maps
These bills address when voters or officials can challenge congressional maps in court and what standards courts should use.
Independent commissions to draw House districts
These bills would shift congressional map drawing from elected lawmakers to independent commissions or set rules for who can serve on them.
Public input before House maps are approved
These bills focus on public notice, hearings, map data, and transparency before new congressional districts are used.
How the detention standards are put in place
If ICE and CBP detention standards are expanded, the rollout should be realistic and should not quietly change detention time limits or immigration law.
Basic Detention Conditions and Enforceable Standards
Minimum rules for food, water, hygiene, shelter, temperature, space, outdoor time, equal treatment, visitor areas, and enforceable facility standards in ICE, CBP, and immigration detention settings.
Medical care in immigration detention
People in ICE and CBP custody should get prompt medical and mental health care.
Immigration detention conditions and healthcare access
Standards and oversight for conditions in immigration detention facilities, including access to healthcare and legal representation.
Lawsuits over election deepfakes
Candidates should be able to use civil courts to stop and recover from realistic AI fakes that harm their campaigns.
Regulation of deceptive AI-generated media in elections
Legislation aimed at prohibiting the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media involving federal candidates, with remedies for affected candidates.
Technology standards for deepfake detection in political ads
Development and implementation of technology standards to detect and manage the use of deepfakes in political advertising, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Disclosure rules for AI-generated political ads
Policies requiring clear and conspicuous disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements to ensure voters are informed about the nature of the content they are viewing.
Limits on detention and faster custody hearings
The government should have to justify immigration detention quickly and use release or the least restrictive option whenever it is enough.
Alternatives to Detention and Community-Based Supervision
Community case management, release presumptions, bond review, least-restrictive conditions, limits on electronic monitoring, and proposals to reduce or end detention and replace it with services.
Mandatory Detention, Custody Hearings, and Release Rules
Rules requiring detention for specified crimes or gang allegations, custody transfer after arrests, limits on parole or release, probable-cause review, bond affordability, custody hearings, and judicial review.
Community supervision and who can run detention
Immigration policy should rely less on private detention and more on community-based supervision, especially for children.
Living conditions in immigration detention
People in ICE and CBP custody should have safe living conditions and basic human needs met.
Basic Detention Conditions and Enforceable Standards
Minimum rules for food, water, hygiene, shelter, temperature, space, outdoor time, equal treatment, visitor areas, and enforceable facility standards in ICE, CBP, and immigration detention settings.
Medical care in immigration detention
People in ICE and CBP custody should get prompt medical and mental health care.
Immigration detention conditions and healthcare access
Standards and oversight for conditions in immigration detention facilities, including access to healthcare and legal representation.
Political spending disclosure
Organizations that spend significant money to influence elections should publicly report who paid for that spending and where the money went.
Donor Privacy and Political Influence Spending
Adjacent campaign-finance and nonprofit-donor rules covering dark money, donor disclosure, donor privacy, political ad labels, and foreign money in ballot measures or election activity.
Foreign money in politics
Foreign sources should face strict limits on spending money to influence U.S. elections, ballot questions, and federal judge nominations.
Transparency in outside political spending
Bills and policy choices about disclosure, donor reporting, and transparency for outside political spending.
Power planning for AI and data centers
The federal government should study how AI and data centers affect the power grid before making bigger energy decisions.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Data center cooling and energy use
Decide whether Congress should support lower-energy cooling technology for AI data centers.
Faster permits for AI and data-center infrastructure
Decide whether AI infrastructure, power projects, and data centers should get faster permits or special legal protections.
Rules against partisan gerrymandering
U.S. House district maps should not be drawn to unfairly favor or punish a political party.
Voting rights and Supreme Court developments
Follow federal bills that respond to voting-rights court cases, including protections against discriminatory voting rules, federal review before risky changes, election observers, language access, and fair map-drawing standards.
Court challenges to unfair district maps
These bills address when voters or officials can challenge congressional maps in court and what standards courts should use.
Independent commissions to draw House districts
These bills would shift congressional map drawing from elected lawmakers to independent commissions or set rules for who can serve on them.
Rules for fair House districts
House districts should have equal populations, follow voting rights law, keep real communities together when possible, and avoid maps drawn for parties or incumbents.
Rules against unfair House districts
These bills address standards such as equal population, voting-rights compliance, keeping communities together, and limiting maps drawn to protect parties or incumbents.
Voting rights and Supreme Court developments
Follow federal bills that respond to voting-rights court cases, including protections against discriminatory voting rules, federal review before risky changes, election observers, language access, and fair map-drawing standards.
Independent commissions to draw House districts
These bills would shift congressional map drawing from elected lawmakers to independent commissions or set rules for who can serve on them.
Who pays for grid upgrades
Very large power users should pay for the grid upgrades needed to serve them when those upgrades mainly benefit their projects.
Clean power for data centers and crypto mining
Decide whether large data centers and crypto mining sites should use cleaner power, supply more of their own electricity, or pay for pollution from their energy use.
Pausing large AI data centers until safeguards exist
Decide whether Congress should pause the largest AI data centers while it studies worker, electricity, water, and community safeguards.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Abortion pill access and safety rules
Federal law should require stricter safety rules before abortion pills can be prescribed or given to patients.
Abortion data reporting
Federal bills would change what abortion-related data states, providers, or health programs must report to federal officials.
Safety reviews for abortion pills
Federal bills and resolutions call for FDA safety reviews or added safeguards for medication abortion.
Accountability for others involved
The government should explain whether it has taken real steps to find and pursue other people who may have been involved in serious crimes.
DOJ and FBI Records in Sensitive Cases
Public and congressional access to DOJ and FBI records in high-profile criminal matters, with rules for redactions, declassification, victim privacy, and explanations for secrecy.
DOJ and FBI Compliance Oversight
Congressional oversight of whether DOJ, FBI, and other agencies preserved records, searched completely, corrected misleading statements, complied with subpoenas, released files on time, and used lawful redactions.
Age checks and parent approval for minors in app stores
Large app stores should verify users' age groups and require parent approval before minors can download apps, buy apps, or keep using apps after major changes.
Age checks and parent approval for minors online
Large app stores should check ages and get a parent's approval before minors download or buy apps.
App maker duties and legal responsibility
If app developers are going to serve minors through app stores, the law should clearly say what they must check, when they are responsible, and when they are protected from liability.
AI and face scanning in camera footage
If immigration agencies use artificial intelligence or face scanning on body camera video, they should have strict rules that recognize those tools can be wrong.
Immigration Enforcement Accountability in Custody Operations
Body cameras, dashboard cameras, video retention and disclosure, officer identification, limits on force or tactical tools, complaints when footage is withheld, and accountability for ICE or CBP misconduct affecting people in custody.
AI and face scanning in camera footage
If immigration agencies use artificial intelligence or face scanning on body camera video, they should have strict rules that recognize those tools can be wrong.
AI and software decisions at work
Employers should have clear limits when they use AI or software to make decisions about people's jobs.
Enforcing worker technology rights
Workers and public officials should have real ways to enforce rules when workplace technology is used unfairly or unlawfully.
AI and software decisions at work
Employers should have clear limits when they use AI or software to make decisions about people's jobs.
AI checks for major life decisions
Companies should have to check powerful computer systems before they use them to help make major decisions about people's lives.
Standards for AI in healthcare decisions
Standards and guidelines to ensure AI systems in healthcare do not perpetuate racial or ethnic biases.
AI decisions in housing
AI tools and digital platforms used in housing decisions should be investigated and regulated to prevent hidden discrimination
AI fakes in federal elections
Should federal law limit the spread of AI-made fake videos or audio about federal candidates during campaigns?
Regulation of deceptive AI-generated media in elections
Legislation aimed at prohibiting the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media involving federal candidates, with remedies for affected candidates.
Disclosure rules for AI-generated political ads
Policies requiring clear and conspicuous disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements to ensure voters are informed about the nature of the content they are viewing.
AI infrastructure and national defense
The federal government should be able to treat some major AI data centers and their power systems as part of national defense.
National Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Foreign AI Compute
Federal treatment of data centers, cloud compute, chips, AI models, and power infrastructure as national security assets, including critical-infrastructure protection, export controls, China AI capacity assessments, and advanced AI theft prevention.
Faster permits for AI and data-center infrastructure
Decide whether AI infrastructure, power projects, and data centers should get faster permits or special legal protections.
Checks on automated decision tools
Companies should have to check automated tools for serious risks before those tools affect people's lives.
Standards for AI in healthcare decisions
Standards and guidelines to ensure AI systems in healthcare do not perpetuate racial or ethnic biases.
AI decisions in housing
AI tools and digital platforms used in housing decisions should be investigated and regulated to prevent hidden discrimination
Classification and National Security
Classified Epstein-related information should be declassified as much as possible with public explanations.
DOJ and FBI Records in Sensitive Cases
Public and congressional access to DOJ and FBI records in high-profile criminal matters, with rules for redactions, declassification, victim privacy, and explanations for secrecy.
Public Release of Epstein Files
Whether DOJ and other federal records about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, related people, travel records, charging decisions, evidence handling, and detention or death records should be released publicly in searchable form.
Clean power rules for big energy users
Large electricity users should have to shift their power supply toward cleaner sources over time.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Clean power for data centers and crypto mining
Decide whether large data centers and crypto mining sites should use cleaner power, supply more of their own electricity, or pay for pollution from their energy use.
Community-based alternatives to detention
When detention is not necessary, immigrants should be supervised in the community with support rather than jail-like control.
Alternatives to Detention and Community-Based Supervision
Community case management, release presumptions, bond review, least-restrictive conditions, limits on electronic monitoring, and proposals to reduce or end detention and replace it with services.
Community-based alternatives to detention
When detention is not necessary, immigrants should be supervised in the community with support rather than jail-like control.
Conflict-of-interest rules for whistleblower cases
How should agencies reduce conflicts of interest when they investigate or decide whistleblower retaliation complaints in national security settings?
FBI and National-Security Whistleblower Channels
Whether FBI and intelligence-related workers should have stronger protections for reports to supervisors, DOJ watchdogs, OSC, Congress, or other authorized officials, including classified reporting guidance and fair appeal rules.
DOJ, FBI, and Federal Whistleblowers
Protections for FBI employees, national security whistleblowers, contractor and grant workers, and other federal workers who report wrongdoing, resist political coercion, or cooperate with watchdogs or Congress.
Congress members' financial conflicts
Members of Congress should have to keep their public work separate from their personal investments.
Government Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
Broader accountability measures that overlap with lobbying concerns, including congressional investments, official perks, presidential and executive-branch ethics, watchdog protections, and donation-related conflicts.
Congress members' financial conflicts
Members of Congress should have to keep their public work separate from their personal investments.
Congress travel and special perks
Members and former Members of Congress should not receive special travel or building privileges unless there is a clear public reason.
Government Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
Broader accountability measures that overlap with lobbying concerns, including congressional investments, official perks, presidential and executive-branch ethics, watchdog protections, and donation-related conflicts.
Congress members' financial conflicts
Members of Congress should have to keep their public work separate from their personal investments.
Congressional ethics enforcement
Ethics rules for Congress should have real consequences, clear public reporting, and fair guidance before people are punished.
Congress members' financial conflicts
Members of Congress should have to keep their public work separate from their personal investments.
Penalties for missed ethics reports
People who miss required ethics reports should face penalties that are clear, fair, and strong enough to matter.
Congressional oversight of released files
Congress should be able to review how the Justice Department released records, what it kept hidden, and why.
DOJ and FBI Compliance Oversight
Congressional oversight of whether DOJ, FBI, and other agencies preserved records, searched completely, corrected misleading statements, complied with subpoenas, released files on time, and used lawful redactions.
Naming Officials and Possible Enablers
Whether record releases and reports should identify public officials, politically exposed people, foreign dignitaries, institutions, associates, and other possible enablers named in Epstein-related materials.
Data center effects on communities and utilities
Large artificial intelligence data centers should not raise household bills, damage the environment, or be built without affected communities having a real say.
Community Notice, Local Control, and Development Deals
Advance notice, public disclosure, limits on secrecy agreements, local and Tribal consultation, community approval, and reporting on land, subsidies, utility deals, taxes, jobs, and property impacts tied to data center projects.
Pausing large AI data centers until safeguards exist
Decide whether Congress should pause the largest AI data centers while it studies worker, electricity, water, and community safeguards.
Data center jobs, taxes, and homes
Data center projects should be judged by whether their jobs, tax money, and effects on nearby homes actually help the host community.
Community Notice, Local Control, and Development Deals
Advance notice, public disclosure, limits on secrecy agreements, local and Tribal consultation, community approval, and reporting on land, subsidies, utility deals, taxes, jobs, and property impacts tied to data center projects.
Water, pollution, and public reporting for data centers
Decide what data centers should disclose about water use, energy use, pollution, and local community impacts.
Data center power bills
Large data centers should pay the power and grid costs they create instead of shifting those costs onto homes, schools, hospitals, farms, and small businesses.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Data centers and electric bills
Large data centers should have to avoid raising electric bills for regular customers when they use large amounts of power.
Data centers and electric bills
Large data centers should have to avoid raising electric bills for regular customers when they use large amounts of power.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Data centers and grid reliability
Large data centers should have to connect to the electric grid in a way that does not make power less reliable or more expensive for other customers.
Grid Reliability and Power Planning
Whether data centers should face special grid-connection queues, demand forecasts, reliability reviews, off-grid or self-supply requirements, and conditions for using less power during grid emergencies.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
Detention oversight and transparency
Immigration detention centers should face regular outside oversight and the public should be able to see how they are operating.
Inspections, Public Reporting, and Detainee Tracking
Unannounced inspections, congressional visits, oversight offices, public detention databases, facility data, unresolved recommendations, death reports, locator updates, and reports on harms or removals.
ICE enforcement tactics and oversight
Policies and oversight mechanisms governing the conduct and authority of ICE officers, including use of force and home-entry authority.
Donations tied to the White House and top officials
Donations tied to the White House and top officials should face strict rules so money cannot buy access, favors, or personal benefit.
Government Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
Broader accountability measures that overlap with lobbying concerns, including congressional investments, official perks, presidential and executive-branch ethics, watchdog protections, and donation-related conflicts.
Donation and contracting rules for White House projects
Bills about donor limits, ethics rules, and contracting concerns tied to White House projects.
Election law investigations
Election regulators should have enough power to investigate foreign money, while people under investigation should be protected from unfair or overly broad inquiries.
Registration requirements for foreign lobbying
Regulations that would tighten the registration requirements for foreign lobbying activities to ensure transparency and compliance.
Foreign money in politics
Foreign sources should face strict limits on spending money to influence U.S. elections, ballot questions, and federal judge nominations.
Enforcing digital content rules
Rules about digital content records should be enforceable by public agencies and, in some cases, by harmed content owners in court.
Regulation of deceptive AI-generated media in elections
Legislation aimed at prohibiting the distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media involving federal candidates, with remedies for affected candidates.
Technology standards for deepfake detection in political ads
Development and implementation of technology standards to detect and manage the use of deepfakes in political advertising, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Enforcing whistleblower rights in federal contracts
Government officials should not be able to push retaliation, and workers should not have to sign away their whistleblower rights in federal contract and grant work.
Federal Contractors, Grantees, and Federally Funded Workers
Whether whistleblower protections should cover contractors, subcontractors, grantees, subgrantees, former workers, personal services contractors, state or tribal entities, and other people working with federal funds.
DOJ, FBI, and Federal Whistleblowers
Protections for FBI employees, national security whistleblowers, contractor and grant workers, and other federal workers who report wrongdoing, resist political coercion, or cooperate with watchdogs or Congress.
Ethics rules for political betting
Senior government officials should not be allowed to make money from bets on political events they may know about or affect.
Officials trading on prediction markets
Regulations addressing insider trading and conflicts of interest in prediction markets, including bans on trading with nonpublic information.
Betting on elections and political events
Rules governing contracts related to election outcomes and political events, including candidate self-betting prohibitions.
Event contracts in financial markets
Federal rules should set clear limits on when trading platforms can offer contracts that let people bet on real-world events.
Rules for prediction markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's role in regulating prediction markets, including jurisdiction over event contracts and enforcement of market integrity rules.
Betting on elections and political events
Rules governing contracts related to election outcomes and political events, including candidate self-betting prohibitions.
FBI whistleblower protections and appeals
How strong should whistleblower protections and appeal rights be for people who work for or apply to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?
FBI and National-Security Whistleblower Channels
Whether FBI and intelligence-related workers should have stronger protections for reports to supervisors, DOJ watchdogs, OSC, Congress, or other authorized officials, including classified reporting guidance and fair appeal rules.
DOJ, FBI, and Federal Whistleblowers
Protections for FBI employees, national security whistleblowers, contractor and grant workers, and other federal workers who report wrongdoing, resist political coercion, or cooperate with watchdogs or Congress.
Federal approval for voting changes
Places with recent voting rights problems, or places making high-risk voting changes, should need federal approval before those changes take effect.
Protections against discriminatory voting maps
These bills address when federal voting-rights law should block election rules or district maps that harm voters because of race, color, or language group.
Voting rights and Supreme Court developments
Follow federal bills that respond to voting-rights court cases, including protections against discriminatory voting rules, federal review before risky changes, election observers, language access, and fair map-drawing standards.
Federal enforcement and state power on youth privacy
Should the federal government set one main national system for enforcing child and teen online privacy rules, or should states keep more room to make and enforce their own laws?
Limits on tracking and data use for minors
Companies should sharply limit how they collect, use, keep, and profit from kids' and teens' personal data.
Platform responsibilities for child safety
This topic covers the responsibilities of digital platforms to prevent and mitigate harms to minors, including design features and content moderation.
Federal help for stronger water systems
Water ratepayers should be protected from surprise cost increases caused by Superfund lawsuits over contamination their utilities didn't cause.
Federal grants and loans for PFAS water treatment
Federal programs including the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, Emerging Contaminants grants for small or disadvantaged communities, and WIFIA loans provide money to help water systems install PFAS treatment. Technical assistance programs like PFAS OUT and WaterTA help systems navigate options. Disputes center on funding levels, eligibility rules, and whether support reaches small and rural systems facing the biggest cost burdens.
Chemical company liability for PFAS contamination
Under Superfund law, the EPA can designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances and pursue polluters for cleanup costs. Lawsuits and settlements have required companies like Chemours to fund testing and remediation in specific areas. Policy disputes include how broadly to apply polluter-pays principles, whether passive receivers like water utilities should get liability exemptions, and how to ensure contaminated communities can recover costs.