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Browse 153 live pages by topic. Each one connects an issue to the bills behind it, then helps you write the office that decides.
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.
Enforcing kids' online safety rules
Government agencies should be able to enforce online safety rules for children when companies break them.
Transparency and accountability for youth platforms
Large platforms should have to publish child-safety reports, undergo outside audits, and clearly disclose how they treat minors and their data.
Ghislaine Maxwell clemency
Ghislaine Maxwell should not receive a presidential pardon or sentence reduction for federal crimes tied to the sexual exploitation and trafficking of minors.
Statute of limitations reform for abuse cases
Legislative efforts to remove or extend statutes of limitations for abuse cases, allowing survivors more time to seek justice.
Civil lawsuits for sexual abuse and exploitation
People harmed by sexual abuse or exploitation should be able to sue the people and businesses responsible and recover enough money to make a case possible.
Public release of Epstein investigation records
Bills about what Epstein-related government records should be released, what can stay redacted, and how Congress should oversee secrecy claims.
Victim privacy in Epstein record releases
Proposals about how to release Epstein-related records while protecting victims identities and other sensitive information.
Secret bank reports and financial crime records
Proposals about whether Congress should receive Treasury suspicious-activity reports and related financial records tied to the Epstein investigation.
Court records and secret jury files
Proposals about whether courts should unseal Epstein-related records, including grand jury materials, while preserving lawful privacy protections.
Congressional oversight of the Epstein investigation
Bills and resolutions about whether Congress should keep investigating how federal agencies handled the Epstein and Maxwell investigations, including subpoenas and possible obstruction of record release.
ICE and Border Patrol funding fight
Congress is weighing separate immigration enforcement funding for ICE, Border Patrol, detention facilities, and border technology after the DHS shutdown fight.
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.
Congressional war powers and Iran
Congress, not the president alone, should decide whether the United States uses military force against Iran.
Child safety tools for social media
Families should be able to use approved outside tools to help protect children on large social media platforms.
Age checks for apps and websites
Apps and app stores should have to make reasonable age checks before giving children access to adult or age-limited online spaces.
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.
Federal enforcement and follow-up reports
The federal government should oversee, enforce, and review any online age-check law through clear rules, audits, and follow-up reports.
Age checks for AI chatbots
AI chatbot services should have to check users' ages before deciding which protections or access limits apply.
Ranked-choice voting for Congress
Congressional elections should let voters rank candidates instead of choosing only one.
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.
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.
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.
Federal review before voting changes take effect
Some voting changes would need federal approval before taking effect when there is a strong risk they could harm voters because of race, color, or language group.
Basic national rules for House map drawing
Congress could set minimum process rules for how states draw U.S. House districts, including public access and procedural standards.
Public input before House maps are approved
These bills focus on public notice, hearings, map data, and transparency before new congressional districts are used.
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.
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.
Abortion data reporting
Federal bills would change what abortion-related data states, providers, or health programs must report to federal officials.
Abortion rules for family planning grants
Federal bills address whether family-planning grant recipients can provide, refer for, or be affiliated with abortion services.
Conscience objections in abortion care
Federal bills address protections and enforcement rules for health-care workers or institutions with abortion-related conscience objections.
Lawsuits involving abortion pills
Federal bills address whether and how people can bring civil claims tied to abortion medication, shipping, or access rules.
Safety reviews for abortion pills
Federal bills and resolutions call for FDA safety reviews or added safeguards for medication abortion.
Federal funding for abortion providers
Federal bills address whether organizations receiving federal funds may perform abortions or fund other entities that do, with exceptions.
Abortion doula care research
Federal bills would study abortion doula care, patient support, care quality, access, and coverage.
Consent checks for abortion drugs
Federal bills address consent verification, penalties, and civil remedies when abortion drugs are provided or used without the pregnant person's knowledge or consent.
Medicaid reports on abortion-provider payments
Federal bills address whether states must report Medicaid payments to abortion providers and make that information public.
Federal funding rules for abortion clinics
Federal bills set licensing, hospital-admission, or outpatient-surgery conditions for abortion clinics that receive federal money.
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.
Water, pollution, and public reporting for data centers
Decide what data centers should disclose about water use, energy use, pollution, and local community impacts.
Separate local power systems for large data users
Decide whether very large data users should be served by separate local power systems instead of ordinary utility service.
Who pays for data center power and grid upgrades
Decide whether large data centers should cover the power, grid, and ratepayer costs they create.
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.
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.
Congressional stock ownership and conflicts
Members of Congress should have strong limits on personal investments that could conflict with their public duties.
Congress members' financial conflicts
Members of Congress should have to keep their public work separate from their personal investments.
Public access to officials' finances
The public should be able to see enough financial information to check whether top officials have conflicts of interest.
Penalties for missed ethics reports
People who miss required ethics reports should face penalties that are clear, fair, and strong enough to matter.
Ban on stock trading by members of Congress
Proposals suggest banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks to prevent conflicts of interest and insider trading.
Stock trading by Members of Congress
Members of Congress and close family members should face limits when their private investments could conflict with public duties.
White House construction spending during shutdowns
Bills about whether White House construction spending should continue during federal funding gaps.
Donation and contracting rules for White House projects
Bills about donor limits, ethics rules, and contracting concerns tied to White House projects.
Tax benefits and abortion services
Federal bills address whether tax-exempt status or other tax benefits should apply to organizations involved in abortion services or funding.
Abortion care in veterans health care
Federal bills address reproductive health services, including abortion-related care, through veterans health programs.
Limits on federal money for abortion
Federal bills address when federal funds, tax benefits, or health savings accounts can be used for abortion-related services.
Abortion coverage in subsidized health insurance
Federal bills address whether federally supported health plans can include abortion coverage and what disclosures are required.
Abortion coverage in Medicaid waiver projects
Federal bills address whether Medicaid and CHIP waiver projects can cover abortion-related services.
Military reproductive health leave and travel help
Federal bills address leave, travel, and coverage rules for servicemembers and families seeking reproductive health care.
Help with abortion travel costs
Federal bills would create or restrict help with travel, lodging, child care, food, and other costs when care is not available nearby.
Travel for abortion care
Federal bills address whether people can travel across state lines for lawful abortion services and whether others can help them.