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Read. Follow. Verify.House Passes Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act Requiring Biennial Threat Analyses and Strategy Updates
Last action · September 16, 2026: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628.Sponsors: Nicholas Langworthy and 27 others
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What This Bill Would Do
The Department of Homeland Security is required to conduct a northern border threat analysis by September 2, 2026, and biennially thereafter, update its northern border strategy within 90 days of each analysis, and provide a classified congressional briefing within 30 days. Additionally, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations must develop performance measures for northern border security within six months.
Federal agencies must systematically re-evaluate security risks along the northern U.S. border and establish new metrics to measure air and maritime enforcement effectiveness.
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Department of Homeland Security
Must conduct scheduled threat analyses, update border strategies, notify Congress if updates are skipped, and provide classified briefings.
Air and Marine Operations
Must develop new performance measures to evaluate security effectiveness between ports of entry in air and maritime environments.
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News Coverage
GAO: Additional actions needed to secure northern border
A recent Congressional hearing highlighted findings from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the need for improved security measures along the U.S.-Canada border. Lawmakers discussed the report's implications for border enforcement and intelligence strategies.
Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans
Six Texas landowners and a nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop border wall construction in the Big Bend region. The lawsuit challenges federal waivers used to bypass environmental and public health laws, and alleges the project violates fifth amendment due process rights. The court has 60 days to respond to the filing.
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Procedural history
15 actions- Sep 16, 2026SenateReceived in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628.
- Sep 16, 2026HouseMotion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 16, 2026HouseFloorOn motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Sep 16, 2026HouseFloorPassed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
- Sep 16, 2026HouseDEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5517.
- Sep 16, 2026HouseConsidered under suspension of the rules.
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- Sep 16, 2026HouseMr. Van Epps moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 15, 2026HousePlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 728.
- Sep 15, 2026HouseCommitteeReported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 119-830.
- Jun 24, 2026HouseCommitteeOrdered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 2.
- Jun 24, 2026HouseCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 24, 2026HouseSubcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Discharged
- Sep 22, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
- Sep 19, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
- Sep 19, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced in House
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