Bills Introduced – 2-9-26
Yesterday, with both the House and Sente in Washington, there were 60 bills introduced. One of those bills will receive additional coverage in this blog:
HR 7448 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to modernize the National Terrorism Advisory System, and for other purposes. Pou, Nellie [Rep.-D-NJ-9]
NTAS Update
I can find no legislation in the 118th Congress that would be similar to HR 7448. The National Terrorism Advisory System has a long and complicated history. See my blog post here for a discussion back in 2012 about this history, and an more recent update (from 2020) here. Interesting side note, even with all of the ‘domestic terrorism’ charges being slung about by the DHS Secretary, there is no current NTAS alert, advisory, or bulletin.
MIP Legislation
I would like to mention in passing one bill that will not receive additional coverage in this blog:
HR 7452 To prohibit weather modification within the United States, and for other purposes. Steube, W. Gregory [Rep.-R-FL-17]
It looks like HR 7452 will be similar to HR 4403, the Clear Skies Act, that was introduced by Rep Greene (R,GA) in July 2025. No action was taken on that bill in the 118th Congress.
Greene’s bill used a rather broad definition of the term ‘weather modification’ that specifically included ‘cloud seeding’, a technique long used (with mixed success) to induce rain or snow from existing clouds. It also included the undefined term ‘geoengineering’ as an example of to be outlawed weather modification techniques. Traditionally that term also encompassed CO2 sequestration as a means of reducing global warming, though current sequestration practitioners (including some commercial operations) are avoiding the use of that term because of its association with more controversial technologies.