RE: Regulation passed the House
The FAA has two mandates from Congress 1. Promote Aviation 2. Safe Guard the flying Public in the NAS. These two mandates will and have been the FAA's Bible. If they Deem some thing is a danger to the "Flying Public" Not even an "Act of Congress" will stop them from finding a way to regulate it. "And U can Take That To The Bank".
If the FAA could find a way to put transponders on Geese you better bet they'd do it. Unelected Government Officials (FAA, NTSB, HLS, DEA, BP, IRS, Czars, President, and some Elected, ect) Today do what they want when they want and Congress or the Constitution Be "DAMMED". And that's just the way it is in the late 20th and early 21st Century in the "Good O'l USofA"