With both the House and Senate meeting in pro forma session, there were 13 bills introduced. One of those bills may receive additional coverage in this blog:
HR 6326 To accelerate accreditation and access to sensitive compartmented information facilities for industry, and for other purposes. Ryan, Patrick [Rep.-D-NY-18]
Information Sharing
I can find no legislation in the 118th Congress that appears to be similar to HR 6325. I suspect that the bill is designed to allow more small businesses in the defense industrial base (DIB) to have access to SCIFs to allow for their access to classified defense information. If that is the case, then I will not be covering the bill here. Rather, I will be watching for language and definitions that would indicate that the expanded access to SCIFs would (could) be used to share classified threat information about potential cyberattacks or physical attacks on non-DIB facilities.
MIP Legislation
I would like to mention in passing one bill that will not receive additional coverage in this blog:
HR 6318 To prohibit price gouging with respect to goods subject to a tariff, and for other purposes. DeLauro, Rosa L. [Rep.-D-CT-3]
This is one of those bills that would appear to be addressing a rather simple problem, businesses using an external factor beyond their control to raise their prices unfairly beyond that external factor to increase their profit margin. One would like to think that market competition would already ensure that this type of price gouging would not occur, and it generally works. But realistically, there are cases where there is no market competition to prevent price gouging, so this may be necessary. Unfortunately, tariffs may cause other business costs to rise (inventory loans for instance) and reduced sales due to price increases may require increased margins to sustain the business, so determining what is price gouging and what is a legitimate business need may not be so obvious.