Bill speeds up adding companies to U.S. export blacklist.
S. 4840 — Export Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act · Filed by Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 18, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill makes it faster to add foreign companies to the Entity List. The Entity List is a blacklist that stops them from buying U.S. goods. Any Committee member can propose adding a company. The Committee must vote within 30 days. Companies on the list are blocked from getting export licenses. The Committee can vote to let them through.
Who it affects
Foreign companies on the blacklist lose access to U.S. exports. U.S. companies that sell to those foreign companies may lose business. Workers at U.S. export companies could be affected.
One thing to notice
Companies added to the blacklist get no public notice before it happens. They have no formal way to appeal or be heard.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 18, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 18, 2026 — 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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $90,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 21 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Marsha Blackburn, who sponsored the bill, received $133,620 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Council for Innovation Promotion (c4ip) — $90,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Entity List — A government blacklist of foreign companies banned from buying U.S. goods.
- export licenses — Official permission from the U.S. government to sell goods to another country.
- 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 (4,334 characters) on Aug 14, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 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 Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. 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 Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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