Bill tells U.S. diplomats to defend Taiwan in world groups.
H.R. 2416 — Taiwan International Solidarity Act · Filed by Gerald Connolly (D-VA) · 12 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes a 2019 law about Taiwan. It says a UN decision did not settle Taiwan's status. The bill tells U.S. diplomats to fight Chinese efforts to exclude Taiwan from world groups. The bill also tells the U.S. to push other countries to stand by Taiwan.
Who it affects
U.S. diplomats will have new jobs in world organizations. Taiwan may get more support in international groups.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say what counts as distorting rules or procedures.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
12 cosponsors: 9 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Mar 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Mar 27, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs”
- May 5, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- May 5, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Mast moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $30,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 2 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Gerald Connolly, who sponsored the bill, received $160,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Wake County Nc — $30,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- status — A country's official position and rights in the world.
- exclude — To keep someone or something out or away.
- diplomats — People who work for their country in other countries.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,550 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 15, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-22.
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