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This proclamation is in the archive twice: here as signed on 2026-08-06, and again in the Federal Register on 2026-08-11, quoted separately on this page. Downstream keeps both rather than merging them. A document is identified by its own text, and the five days between the two dates are a fact about publication, not about the action.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/polysilicon-proclamation-as-signed.html", "citation": { "corpus": "presidential", "branch": "presidential", "authority": [ "The President" ], "reference": "Proclamation", "record_id": "pd-57b4d8f2767ed3cf", "record_label": "pd-57b4d8f2767ed3cf", "dated": "2026-08-06", "date_kind": "published", "certainty": "statutory", "links": [ { "label": "whitehouse.gov", "href": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/adjusting-imports-of-polysilicon-and-its-derivatives-into-the-united-states/" }, { "label": "federalregister.gov", "href": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/11/2026-16400/adjusting-imports-of-polysilicon-and-its-derivatives-into-the-united-states" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": "published", "sponsorship": null, "provenance": { "retrieved_at": "2026-09-04T00:27:00.353Z", "capture_id": "cap_20260904002700353_3eff1096", "content_sha256": "116b7934e54019bb5a813e79e39624b9465a4c53b0c0d1f49ffe3c148faca88d", "day_merkle_root": null, "method": "whitehouse.gov presidential-actions feed, captured whole and hashed; the document is identified by its own opening text, not by a number." } } }, { "quote_id": "unmanned-aircraft-import-adjustment", "text": "Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States", "corpus": "presidential", "sectors": [ "ai", "big-tech" ], "basis": "regulates_input", "bridge": "An autonomous flight product is assembled from imported airframes, flight controllers and sensors, and a proclamation setting import terms on the components sets them for the parts the company building that product buys.", "so_what": "Import terms for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components are what this proclamation adjusts, so the price of the hardware an autonomy product is built out of is set at the border rather than by the buyer.", "anchors": [ "Unmanned Aircraft Systems", "Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components" ], "action": null, "query": "Read against the sector rule from the White House feed. 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It was never printed in the Federal Register, which for a memorandum is a choice rather than a lapse.", "anchors": [ "Winning the 6G Race", "Presidential Memoranda" ], "action": null, "query": "Read against the sector rule from the White House feed. Carried partly for what its citation shows: the Federal Register never printed it, and for a memorandum that is a choice rather than an omission. Anybody watching only the Register would not know this document exists.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/winning-the-6g-race.html", "citation": { "corpus": "presidential", "branch": "presidential", "authority": [ "The President" ], "reference": "Presidential Memoranda", "record_id": "pd-2d2210ff6c081091", "record_label": "pd-2d2210ff6c081091", "dated": "2025-12-20", "date_kind": "published", "certainty": "statutory", "links": [ { "label": "whitehouse.gov", "href": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8-0bda/" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": "absent_from_federal_register", "sponsorship": null, "provenance": { "retrieved_at": "2026-09-04T00:27:00.353Z", "capture_id": "cap_20260904002700353_3eff1096", "content_sha256": "116b7934e54019bb5a813e79e39624b9465a4c53b0c0d1f49ffe3c148faca88d", "day_merkle_root": null, "method": "whitehouse.gov presidential-actions feed, captured whole and hashed; the document is identified by its own opening text, not by a number." } } }, { "quote_id": "defense-supply-chains-critical-materials", "text": "Securing America’s Defense Supply Chains and Ensuring Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials", "corpus": "presidential", "sectors": [ "big-tech" ], "basis": "regulates_input", "bridge": "Critical materials is the category the refined minerals and rare earths in a semiconductor package and in data-centre power equipment fall under, and an order steering federal acquisition of them steers who may buy them and on what terms.", "so_what": "This executive order covers Defense Supply Chains and Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials, putting federal purchasing behind domestic sources of the same materials commercial buyers are bidding for.", "anchors": [ "Defense Supply Chains", "Domestic Acquisition of Critical Materials" ], "action": null, "query": "Read against the sector rule from the White House feed. Presidential actions are quotable here from their titles, which is why the quote is the title.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/defense-supply-chains-critical-materials.html", "citation": { "corpus": "presidential", "branch": "presidential", "authority": [ "The President" ], "reference": "Executive Order", "record_id": "pd-f6b04981c0378e0a", "record_label": "pd-f6b04981c0378e0a", "dated": "2026-07-20", "date_kind": "published", "certainty": "statutory", "links": [ { "label": "whitehouse.gov", "href": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/securing-americas-defense-supply-chains-and-ensuring-domestic-acquisition-of-critical-materials/" }, { "label": "federalregister.gov", "href": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/23/2026-15003/securing-americas-defense-supply-chains-and-ensuring-domestic-acquisition-of-critical-materials" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": "published", "sponsorship": null, "provenance": { "retrieved_at": "2026-09-04T00:27:00.353Z", "capture_id": "cap_20260904002700353_3eff1096", "content_sha256": "116b7934e54019bb5a813e79e39624b9465a4c53b0c0d1f49ffe3c148faca88d", "day_merkle_root": null, "method": "whitehouse.gov presidential-actions feed, captured whole and hashed; the document is identified by its own opening text, not by a number." } } }, { "quote_id": "sba-artificial-intelligence-utilization-act", "text": "SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026", "corpus": "house-floor", "sectors": [ "ai" ], "basis": "names_sector", "bridge": null, "so_what": "The Small Business Administration's own use of Artificial Intelligence is what this bill is titled for, and the House put it on the calendar for the week of 2026-06-22 under suspension of the rules, the route that takes two-thirds rather than a simple majority.", "anchors": [ "Artificial Intelligence", "under suspension of the rules" ], "action": { "kind": "watch", "label": "Scheduled for a vote", "certainty": "scheduled", "deadline": "2026-06-22", "days_after_publication": 0, "evidence": null, "docket_ids": [], "href": "http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20260622/H.R. 8881.pdf" }, "query": "Every measure on the House floor schedule read against the sector rule. This one matched on \"artificial intelligence\" in the bill title, and it is one of only three that any term search finds.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/sba-artificial-intelligence-utilization-act.html", "citation": { "corpus": "house-floor", "branch": "legislative", "authority": [ "U.S. House of Representatives" ], "reference": "H.R. 8881, 119th Congress", "record_id": "119-hr-8881", "record_label": "H.R. 8881", "dated": "2026-06-22", "date_kind": "scheduled", "certainty": "scheduled", "links": [ { "label": "docs.house.gov", "href": "http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20260622/H.R. 8881.pdf" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": null, "sponsorship": { "sponsor": "Rep. 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A rule resolution spells out the bill it sets terms for, so H. Res. 1042 carries the description of H.R. 261 that the bill's own one-line entry, \"Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025\", does not.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/undersea-fiber-optic-cables-sanctuary.html", "citation": { "corpus": "house-floor", "branch": "legislative", "authority": [ "U.S. House of Representatives" ], "reference": "H. Res. 1042, 119th Congress", "record_id": "119-hres-1042", "record_label": "H. Res. 1042", "dated": "2026-02-09", "date_kind": "scheduled", "certainty": "scheduled", "links": [ { "label": "docs.house.gov", "href": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hres1042rh/pdf/BILLS-119hres1042rh.pdf" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": null, "sponsorship": { "sponsor": "Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. 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Found through the rule resolution rather than the bill: H.R. 1181 appears on the calendar as \"Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act\", which names neither the actor nor the mechanism.", "permalink": "/quotes/q/payment-card-merchant-category-codes.html", "citation": { "corpus": "house-floor", "branch": "legislative", "authority": [ "U.S. House of Representatives" ], "reference": "H. Res. 1377, 119th Congress", "record_id": "119-hres-1377", "record_label": "H. Res. 1377", "dated": "2026-06-22", "date_kind": "scheduled", "certainty": "scheduled", "links": [ { "label": "docs.house.gov", "href": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hres1377rh/pdf/BILLS-119hres1377rh.pdf" } ], "effective_on": null, "comments_close_on": null, "register_state": null, "sponsorship": { "sponsor": "Rep. 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The schedule carries the title and nothing else, so what the bill requires is in the text the House posted, not on the calendar.", "anchors": [ "Remote Access Security Act", "under suspension of the rules" ], "action": { "kind": "watch", "label": "Scheduled for a vote", "certainty": "scheduled", "deadline": "2026-01-12", "days_after_publication": 0, "evidence": null, "docket_ids": [], "href": "http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20260112/H2683_SUS_xml.pdf" }, "query": "Read by hand from the floor schedule. No term search finds this one. 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