Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill strengthens technical and compliance vetting to improve broadband quality and reduce waste, but that stricter approach risks excluding new/small providers, slowing deployment, and raising compliance costs.
Amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
Require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.
The bill gives existing hydropower license holders more time and regulatory predictability to protect investments and potential renewable capacity, while trading off near-term local economic activity, prolonging environmental uncertainty for affected communities, and risking weaker incentives and greater backlog in federal permitting.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support for farmers, rural broadband, conservation, and food‑system resilience while increasing federal spending, administrative complexity, and regulatory shifts that could favor larger actors and weaken some environmental, local, and procedural protections.
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
The bill helps restore accurate identification and commemoration of Jewish servicemembers—providing targeted funding and outreach to notify families and correct records—at the cost of modest federal spending, potential family distress, and limits on contractor types and contract continuity.
Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035.
Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2025
The bill strengthens and clarifies whistleblower protections and accountability for reprisals in government contracting—improving access to remedies and encouraging reporting of safety and waste—while increasing compliance and litigation costs and creating operational caution and legal uncertainty that could slow contracting and oversight.
PIPELINE Safety Act of 2025
The bill increases funding, transparency, and modernization of pipeline safety programs—improving inspections, research, and community preparedness—while imposing new compliance costs, some regulatory complexities, and potential safety or accountability risks where exemptions or confidentiality limit oversight.
Transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
The bill clarifies and adjusts Harpers Ferry park boundaries and enables CBP training expansion—improving management and security—while shifting costs to taxpayers and reducing a small amount of protected parkland.
Expanding the Surety Bond Program Act of 2025
The bill helps more small businesses compete for larger contracts and strengthens oversight of the bonding program, but does so at the cost of diverting a small portion of the fund to administration and creating risks of temporary reduced bonding capacity and added implementation complexity.
SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act
The bill creates a uniform 10-year statute of limitations that gives businesses and agencies clearer timing for COVID-relief fraud claims and may improve recoveries, but it also lengthens exposure to claims and raises compliance, litigation, and enforcement costs for small businesses and the government.
Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
The bill modernizes IRS services and increases transparency—helping taxpayers track returns, get refunds, and avoid long hold times—while concentrating sensitive data and imposing significant IT costs and implementation risks that could disadvantage some taxpayers and create privacy/security challenges.
IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act
The bill strengthens whistleblower protections and procedural clarity—encouraging reporting and potentially increasing recoveries—while raising the risk of longer, costlier litigation, added administrative burdens, and some privacy and fiscal trade-offs for taxpayers.
BARCODE Efficiency Act
The bill speeds IRS digitization and reduces manual data-entry errors for many taxpayers and staff, but requires upfront costs and added compliance steps and creates risks of OCR errors and uneven implementation that could harm some filers.
Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
The bill streamlines child-support enforcement by making passport revocation the default and provides a narrow emergency return passport to avoid stranding, at the cost of eliminating lesser travel options and adding procedural steps that may delay enforcement and create travel uncertainty.
Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
The bill gives taxpayers more notice, transparency, and protection from unnecessary third‑party inquiries, but it may slow IRS enforcement and raise administrative costs while leaving some legal uncertainty about exceptions.
New Opportunities for Business Ownership and Self-Sufficiency Act
The bill expands and standardizes support to help unemployed people start businesses and improves oversight, but it increases administrative demands on states and some claimants, risks reduced participant access if limits change, and may face implementation delays.
HEATS Act
The bill speeds and facilitates geothermal development and preserves federal royalties and inspections, but it does so by narrowing federal environmental, endangered species, and historic-preservation reviews—shifting oversight to states and increasing risks to wildlife, historic sites, and public input.
Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act
The bill gives targeted, and in some cases retroactive, tax relief to disaster and wildfire survivors (including non‑itemizers) at the cost of reduced federal revenue, narrow eligibility that leaves many victims out, and added tax‑rule complexity and interactions that can limit other benefits.
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill expands CBP's ability to share nonpublic import-related information to help rights-holders and traders resolve disputes and speed legitimate trade, but it also raises significant privacy and competitive risks because disclosures can be broad and depend on Commissioner discretion without detailed safeguards.
Clergy Act
The bill gives ordained religious workers a clear, time-limited opportunity and administrative path to join Social Security — improving retirement and survivor coverage and planning flexibility — but it permanently removes the exemption once revoked, risks large retroactive tax bills for late opt-ins, and increases administrative and taxpayer costs.
To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the increase of the retirement age in the United States Capitol Police.
SEED Act
The bill gives direct tax relief and clearer tax treatment to early childhood educators to help classroom resourcing and early learning quality, while reducing federal revenue and creating equity and administrative challenges for informal providers and governments.
Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act
The bill makes settlements for sexual acts/contacts tax-free and improves claimants' ability to obtain the exclusion, benefiting survivors, while reducing federal revenue and creating administrative burdens and some tax-treatment uncertainty for other injury settlements.
Maverick Act
The bill enables a local museum to acquire historic F‑14D aircraft for public display and education without federal purchase costs, but shifts substantial restoration, safety liability, and regulatory compliance risks and costs onto the local recipients.
Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2025
The bill significantly reduces legal and financial exposure for U.S. persons who comply with U.S. sanctions—improving predictability and protecting national-security enforcement tools—at the trade-off of denying foreign parties domestic recovery avenues and risking diplomatic, commercial, and market-side consequences.
Protect Infant Formula from Contamination Act
The bill improves infant‑formula safety, outbreak response, and supply transparency through faster reporting and oversight, but it raises compliance and administrative costs and could cause short‑term supply disruptions or higher prices for families.
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN.
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
FIRE Act
The bill makes it easier for states to carry out prescribed burns and increases EPA petition transparency, but risks weakening enforcement and ignoring emissions that could harm local air quality while adding complexity that may slow regulatory decisions.
