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S. 259119th CongressScience, Technology, Communications
Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
Sponsored by Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) · 3 active : 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate7 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedOct 23, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govForeign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to annually publish a list of entities that hold a license or other authorization granted by the FCC and have ties to specified foreign countries.
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With respect to entities holding cable landing licenses (for the placement and operation of submarine communications cables) or other licenses granted via competitive auction, the FCC must publish a list of all such entities (1) in which a covered entity holds a specified voting or equity interest, or (2) that have been determined by a national security agency to be subject to the control of a covered entity.
With respect to entities holding all other categories of FCC licenses or other authorizations, the FCC must first issue rules facilitating the collection of information on such licensees’ ownership structure. After that information is obtained, the FCC must add to the published list any such entity in which a covered entity holds a specified voting or equity interest.
Under the bill, a
covered entity
is defined as an entity organized in China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia; a subsidiary of such an entity; or the government of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Asia
- Caribbean area
- China
- Corporate finance and management
- Cuba
- Foreign and international corporations
- Government information and archives
- Iran
- Latin America
- Licensing and registrations
- Middle East
- North Korea
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- Russia
- Venezuela
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 68Middle 30–70
- 25Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
- 1
John FettermanDemocrat · Pennsylvania · Lean R+1Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
