Congress demands CFIUS list sensitive U.S. facilities, report foreign deals
S. 2116 — A bill to require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to annually review, update, and report on the facilities and property of the United States Government determined to be national security sensitive for purposes of review of real estate transactions under section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950. · Filed by Tim Scott (R-SC) · 11 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 18, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to create and annually update a list of U.S. government facilities and properties deemed sensitive for national security reasons—including intelligence and energy labs—and to report publicly on foreign investment reviews touching those sites. Each federal agency represented on CFIUS must review its own sensitive facilities annually and recommend updates to the list.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is a procedural requirement—CFIUS must create, maintain, and report on a list of sensitive U.S. government facilities and foreign investment reviews touching them. It is a transparency and accountability measure, not a deregulation, subsidy, or carve-out.
What the text implies
- The bill does not itself define 'national security sensitive'—that definition lives in existing section 721(a)(4)(B)(ii) of the Defense Production Act. The scope and breadth of the list depend on how CFIUS interprets that standard in its regulations.
- Annual agency review and reporting may surface previously undisclosed or uncoordinated facility lists across the federal government, potentially revealing gaps or overlaps in national security designation.
- Classified briefings to Members of Congress on the sensitive-sites list create a two-tier disclosure: public reporting on transactions, but classified detail on facility locations and vulnerabilities—a reasonable security boundary but one that limits public scrutiny.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill strengthens democratic accountability by requiring CFIUS to maintain and publicly report on a systematic list of sensitive facilities and foreign investment reviews affecting them. Citizens and Congress gain transparency into which U.S. government properties are flagged for national security and how foreign acquisitions near those sites are being screened—information previously scattered or opaque.
Named in the bill
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Defense Production Act of 1950, Intelligence Community, National Laboratories, Energy Policy Act of 2005, U.S. federal agencies
Where it stands
11 cosponsors: 11 Republicans.
- Jun 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 18, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $290,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 89 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Tim Scott, the sponsor, reported $214,300 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Fdd Action — $290,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,506 characters) on Apr 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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