The register

Privacy and surveillance

Whether the government can buy data it would need a warrant to seize.

H.R. 4639, 118th Congress (2023 to 2025)

Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

123 Republicans and 96 Democrats voted for it in the House, and the Senate never took it up.

Passed one chamber

H.R. 8152, 117th Congress (2021 to 2023)

American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Cleared committee 53 to 2 with both parties behind it, and never reached the House floor.

Never reached the floor

Other plots

Healthcare, Childcare and families, School meals, Wages, Social Security, Taxes, Cannabis, Immigration, Eminent domain, War powers, Artificial intelligence, Gambling