Protect U.S. National Laboratories and taxpayer-funded research by restricting access for nationals of foreign adversary countries while allowing narrowly reviewed national-interest waivers.

Pat Harrigan · North Carolina · Republican

policy impact 0.55 specificity 0.82 extraction confidence 86%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Congressman Harrigan will continue working to protect American research and intellectual property and prevent foreign adversaries from exploiting taxpayer-funded innovation.

Harrigan committed to continue working to protect American research and intellectual property, in the context of introducing the GATE Act to restrict foreign adversary nationals' access to U.S. National Laboratories.

Congressman Pat Harrigan Introduces GATE Act to Protect U.S. National Laboratories from Foreign Adversaries | Congressman Pat Harrigan
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Rep. Pat Harrigan introduced H.R.6487, the SECURE STEM Act, on December 5, 2025. The introduced text would bar covered foreign nationals in listed visa categories, prohibit national research laboratory employment for covered foreign nationals in those categories, and allow a joint State/DHS national-interest waiver for a specific individual.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Harrigan took concrete legislative action matching the commitment's core mechanism: restrictions on nationals from adversary countries with a case-specific national-interest waiver. Because this is only introduced bill text, it does not prove enacted delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.6487 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): SECURE STEM Act
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Congress.gov lists H.R.6487's latest action as referral on December 5, 2025 to the House Judiciary and Science, Space, and Technology Committees, and the tracker status remains Introduced.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No official action in the lookback window shows passage, enactment, reversal, abandonment, or new blockage. The commitment remains unresolved legislatively, with serious sponsor action but no enacted delivery shown by this record.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Actions - H.R.6487 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): SECURE STEM Act
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Harrigan introduced H.R.6487, the SECURE STEM Act, in the 119th Congress while serving in the relevant federal office. The bill closely matches the promise by restricting covered foreign nationals from certain visa access and national laboratory employment while allowing case-specific national-interest waivers. However, the bill remains only introduced and referred to committees, with no evidence of passage, enactment, or executive implementation. Because the candidate made a serious same-term legislative attempt but the promised policy outcome has not been delivered and the Congress is still ongoing, the status is unresolved rather than delivered or finally failed.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%