Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2026

LEGISLATION: S. 1748-Kids Online Safety Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy, Civil Rights and Liberties. S. 3663-Kids Online Safety Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Kids Online Safety, Civil Rights and Liberties. S. 9-Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. S. 894-Do No Harm Act-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. S. 128-SAVE Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S. 1503-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. S. 2164-Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic Justice. S. 1957-No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. S. 1829-STOP CSAM Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. S. 2150-Womens Health Protection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S. 2296-National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026-Issues Lobbied: Artificial Intelligence. S. 2212-VISIBLE Act-Issues Lobbied: Federal Policing Reform. S. 2523-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. S.3386-Health Care Freedom for Patients Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. S. 2316-Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. S. 836-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 3495-Artificial Intelligence Scam Prevention Act-Issues Lobbied: Artificial Intelligence. S. 1691-Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S. 278-Kids Off Social Media Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. S. 3308-Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic Justice. S. 2149-Health Equity and Access under the Law for Immigrant Families Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights, Immigration. S. 3077-Safer Supervision Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Federal Supervision, Re-Entry. S. 3206-Transgender Health Care Access Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. S.Res. 604-A resolution recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. S. 3702-Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration Detention. S. 3893-SAFE Act-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. S. 4082-Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. S. 1809-Drone Espionage Act-Issues Lobbied: Espionage Act issues. S. 3752-SAVE America Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Transgender Rights. S.J.Res. 103-A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to "Reproductive Health Services"-Issues Lobbied: Abuse of Power, Reproductive Freedom. S. 3186-Constitutional Accountability Act-Issues Lobbied: Federal Law Enforcement Accountability, Policing Reform. S. 3674-SCAM Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. S. 3699-FOCUS Act-Issues Lobbied: Body Cam Legislation, Civil Liberties. S. 3805-End Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Attacks on State and Local Governments. S. 558-Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. S. 4199-Youth AI Privacy Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. S. 3803-Right to Redress Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform. S. 4143-Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Prison Reform. S .545-Combating Illicit Xylazine Act-Issues Lobbied: Drug Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. S. 1572-Federal Carjacking Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. S. 3869-Healthy Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. S. 4081-Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. S. 51-Washington, D.C. Admission Act- Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 14-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 12-Womens Health Protection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 28-Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2487-Transgender Health Care Access Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 1954-Do No Harm Act-Issues Lobbied: Religious Liberty. H.R. 22-SAVE Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 1-One Big Beautiful Bill Act-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic Justice (Reconciliation Package/AI moratorium). H.R. 15-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 3492-Protect Childrens Innocence Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 3708-No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 5068-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana Decriminalization. H.R. 59-Mens Rea Reform Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing Reform. H.R. 4889-To prohibit States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 4358-Anti-Rigging Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 5507-Hidden Foster Care Transparency Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 498-Do No Harm in Medicaid Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 4518-Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 3921-STOP CSAM Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 6291-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 2683-Remote Access Security Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 4831-ENFORCE Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R. 6397-Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration Detention. H.R. 4611-EACH Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 6091-Bivens Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform, Federal Law Enforcement Accountability. H.R. 4250-PRESS Act-Issues Lobbied: First Amendment. H.R. 7661-Stop the Sexualization of Children Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights, Free Speech. H.R. 7651-Chloe Cole Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 1028-Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2616-PROTECT Kids Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.R. 2617-Say No to Indoctrination Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights, Free Speech. H.Res. 1058-Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender and nonbinary people under the law and ensure their access to medical care, shelter, safety, and economic security-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ Rights. H.Res. 965-Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1689) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status-Issues Lobbied: Temporary Protected Status. H.R. 7816-Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. H.R. 7901-To implement reforms relating to foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: Section 702. H.R. 4076-Insurrection Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Insurrection Act reform. H.R. 7147-Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, Abuse of Power, ICE and Border Patrol Accountability, Election Interference. H.Con.Res. 38-Directing the President pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to remove United States Armed Forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran-Issues Lobbied: Surveillance, War Authority. H.R. 7296-SAVE America Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights, Transgender Rights. H.R. 1958-Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7744-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7423-No Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Attacks on State and Local Governments. H.R. 7148-Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7161-No Private Bounty Hunters for Immigration Enforcement Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7709-Full-Body Restraint Prohibition Act-Issues Lobbied: Immigration. H.R. 7930-Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Press Freedom. H.R. 7691-Fight Book Bans Act- Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. H.R. 1007-Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech. H.R. 3149-App Store Accountability Act-Issues Lobbied: Free Speech, Privacy. H.R. 6453-ADA 30 Days to Comply Act-Issues Lobbied: Disability Rights. H.R. 2029-Stop Comstock Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive Rights. H.R. 5973-Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act-Issues Lobbied: Federal Policing Reform; H.R .7125-Stop Body Camera Paywalls Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing Reform. H.R. 2853-Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. H.R. 1266-Combating Illicit Xylazine Act-Issues Lobbied: Drug Sentencing, Mass Incarceration. H.R. 7247-Prison Libraries Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Prison Reform. H.R. 8175-To amend title 10, United States Code, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, to codify and clarify gender neutral standards for members of certain Armed Forces, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbies: Womens Rights, Women in Combat. H.R. 7531-Healthy Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7856-Fair Housing for Survivors Act of 2026-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7917-Fair Wages for Home Care Workers Act-Issues Lobbied: Womens Rights. H.R. 7300-Make Elections Great Again Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. H.R. 7621-Stop ICE Election Militarization Act-Issues Lobbied: Election Interference. H.R. 51-Washington, D.C. Admission Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting Rights. LEGISLATION WITH NO BILL NUMBER AND APPOINTMENTS: Additional legislation not yet introduced - Patenting of genes and gene research legislation; Legislation relating to defining antisemitism in education programs - First Amendment protections; Draft legislation on artificial intelligence and implementation of EO on artificial intelligence - free speech, privacy, nondiscrimination; Oversight over counterterrorism policy and practices - torture, detention, drones, war authority, Guantanamo Bay; Section 702 - civil liberties and national security; Car privacy; General age verification and privacy; Mental Health Justice Act - community safety; Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act - marijuana decriminalization; Section 230 of Communications Decency Act proposals - free speech, internet integrity, content moderation; Amendments to the Privacy Act of 1974; TSA use of facial recognition technology; DHS data consolidation; FCC First Amendment violations - free speech; Protest Rights; Continued funding for Affordable Connectivity Act - ensuring continued funding for broadband subsidy; DC Statehood; Civil liberties; Free speech; Algorithmic justice; Reproductive rights; FY26 Federal Funding; Administration First Amendment violations; Kinetic impact weapons regulation; Privacy Act of 1974 reforms; Federal consumer privacy framework; Federal AI use case inventories; Jawboning; Future abortion codification legislation; Womens rights; Disability rights; Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act - prohibiting data purchases by law enforcement and intelligence agencies; Immigration detention - advising on oversight; Accountability for ICE/federal immigration agency violations - prospective bills; Freedom to Vote Act; Administration attacks on Head Start; Legal authority related to military strikes/Venezuela/boats - presidential action and concurrent resolutions, use of lethal force; FCC commissioner pressuring private companies in violation of First Amendment; Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas; Department of Governmental Efficiency; Immigration; DHS Funding; Artificial intelligence; FISA reauthorization; Iran war funding; Transgender rights; Abuse of Power; End Racial and Religious Profiling Act - federal law enforcement accountability, policing reform; Election safeguarding issues; Childrens Dignity and Due Process Act; Right to seek redress; ICE and Border Patrol accountability legislation and oversight hearings; ICE and Border Patrol abuses in Minneapolis and elsewhere; JAWBONE Act; Daniel Ellsberg Whistleblower Protection Act; Pipeline Safety Authorization Act of 2026 - protest rights, free speech; Youth AI Privacy Act; Press Freedom; Prison book bans; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act - LGBTQ rights; WARRIOR Act - womens rights; BE HEARD in the Workplace Act - womens rights; Appropriations funding for health care and home and community based services - disability rights; VA Care Protection Act - disability rights; Hyde Amendment; Potential legislation to protect mifepristone; Sharia-Free America hearing - religious liberty; Legislative proposal on reproductive rights and access; Resolution regarding FDAs restrictions on medication abortion; Legislation on funding for training for abortion care providers; Uphold Privacy Act - reproductive rights, data privacy; Women in combat; Discussions about fraud funding freezes - womens rights; Veterans Care Protection Act; Prohibition on DHS interference with elections; Election interference; Democracy Without Intimidation Act; Native American Voting Rights Act; Appropriations for FY26 spending - civil right and civil liberties; Legislation authorizing IRS to sanction nonprofit organizations based on allegations related to material support for terrorism. AGENCIES: Agency - Homeland Security - Issues Lobbied: Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, temporary protected status, general immigration detention oversight, nomination of Markwayne Mullin to be DHS Secretary, ICE abuses, DHS oversight. Agency - Office of Science and Technology Policy - Issues Lobbied: Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice. Agency - Labor - Issues Lobbied: Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice. Agency - U.S. Trade Representative - Issues Lobbied: U.S. commitments at WTO, open internet. Agency - Education - Issues Lobbied: Legislation relating to defining antisemitism in education programs, First Amendment protections. Agency - NIST - Issues Lobbied: Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice, supply chains and digital trade. Agency - Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Issues Lobbied: Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, related legislation and hearings, civil liberties and national security issues. Agency - Department of Health and Human Services - Issues Lobbied: NIH data sharing platform, privacy, disability rights, abortion access for unaccompanied minors in ORR custody, access to mifepristone. Agency - Federal Communications Commission - Issues Lobbied: First Amendment violations, FCC commissioner pressuring private companies in violation of First Amendment. Agency - Department of Justice - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, prison conditions, PREA, Executive Order 14164: Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety - state opt in for certification, state lethal injection protocols covered by the EO. Agency - Executive Office of the President - Issues Lobbied: FCC commissioner pressuring private companies in violation of First Amendment, Iran War supplemental appropriations. Agency - Office of Management and Budget - Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, prison conditions, PREA. Agency - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Issues Lobbied: Letter opposing EEOC rescission of voting rules.