The Government Accountability Office published a restricted report Feb. 10 titled, “Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.: Actions Needed to Better Address National Security Risks Related to Nascent Technologies.” The report isn't being publicly released because it contains "controlled unclassified information," the GAO said. A public version of the document is not planned "at this time," a GAO spokesperson said.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, introduced a bill Feb. 11 that would prohibit U.S. universities from selling the intellectual property rights of their research to the governments of what he called “hostile” countries, including China, Russia and Iran.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., asked the Commerce Department Feb. 11 to explain why the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) has been experiencing the loss of key personnel and delays in several important efforts.
A bipartisan group of six House members on Feb. 11 introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would impose additional sanctions targeting Russia’s oil revenue.
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Feb. 11 that recent comments by Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, underscore the need for legislation to restrict exports of advanced AI chips to China.
Three House Republicans from Florida urged the Trump administration Feb. 10 to review all active U.S. licenses authorizing commercial or financial dealings involving Cuba's government or state-owned enterprise and revoke those that benefit entities controlled by the island country's "brutal regime."
Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, and Riley Moore, R-W.Va., introduced a bill Feb. 10 that calls for the State Department to determine whether certain Fulani-ethnic militias in Nigeria qualify as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
A bipartisan group of seven House members led by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., introduced a bill Feb. 9 that would direct the executive branch to sanction and apply Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations to successors of the Wagner Group, a Russian military company that was reorganized after its leader died in 2023.
The House approved by voice vote late Feb. 9 a bill designed to strengthen sanctions against several sources of funding for Myanmar’s military.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., urged the Trump administration late Feb. 6 to reimpose sanctions on former Serb Republic President Milorad Dodik, saying he continues to promote secession from Bosnia and Herzegovina.