Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026
The bill strengthens Title IV payment integrity and oversight to reduce fraud and taxpayer losses, but it risks delaying or blocking timely aid for vulnerable students, raises privacy and data‑security concerns, and increases administrative burdens on schools.
ZOMBIE Act
The bill improves measurement and risk-based controls to better detect and prevent improper federal payments, but does so at the cost of higher agency compliance burden, narrower reporting of problem payments, and less frequent public visibility.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill strengthens agencies' ability to pause/segment payments and requires notice and faster contest procedures to reduce improper payments, but it also risks delaying funds for needy recipients, creating recurring interruptions for programs with frequent flags, and producing uneven implementation due to narrow definitions and guidance reliance.
Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act
First Rhode Island Regiment Congressional Gold Medal Act
The bill publicly honors and preserves the history of the multiracial First Rhode Island Regiment and makes commemorative duplicates available through a self-funded Mint program, but it relies on symbolic recognition rather than benefits, shifts conservation and financial risks to state institutions and the Mint's fund, and could raise costs or administrative burdens if sales are weak.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs studies and a congressional report to improve coordination and funding access for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially accelerating on‑the‑ground hazard reduction—while imposing modest study costs and risking regulatory changes or funding shifts that could affect landowners and other programs.
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve foster family recruitment, placement matching, youth engagement, and transparency to increase permanency for children, but it requires new data collection and planning that raise costs, implementation unevenness, privacy risks, and administrative burdens for states and families.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wild Horses Protection Act
The bill preserves a minimum, genetically diverse herd and strengthens monitoring and planning to support recreation and transparency, but it raises taxpayer costs and may constrain managers' ability to prevent ecological damage or cross-boundary conflicts.
To 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.
Allowing Emancipation Hall to be used for a ceremony to dedicate the Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
MERICA Act of 2025
The bill opens acquired federal lands to hardrock mineral leasing and clarifies which materials are covered to spur industry activity and local jobs, but increases risks of environmental damage, potential taxpayer liability for reclamation, and loss of recreation and conservation uses on public lands.
Snow Water Supply Forecasting Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill improves water-supply forecasting for states, utilities, and rural communities by funding advanced measurements and modeling, but does so with modest, time-limited federal dollars that are smaller than prior authorizations and increase Secretary discretion, raising scale and transparency concerns.
Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act
The bill boosts transparency and accountability around FERC licensing to help address multi‑year backlogs, but it imposes reporting costs and may increase scrutiny or litigation that could slow some projects.
Faster Labor Contracts Act
The bill trades faster, enforceable paths to first contracts and shorter dispute timelines—which can deliver quicker pay and stability for workers—for binding outcomes, compressed negotiation flexibility, higher potential costs to employers/consumers, and increased administrative burdens on employers and federal agencies.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully increases public transparency and oversight of federal awards by standardizing and publishing more data and creating reporting deadlines, but those benefits come with nontrivial administrative and compliance costs, potential diversion of staff from program delivery, and remaining security/coverage exceptions.
Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025
The bill aims to expand and better target PTSD and behavioral-health care for public-safety personnel—especially in rural and Tribal areas—by producing DOJ-informed program options and confidentiality-focused grants, but it may require new spending, impose implementation burdens on small/local agencies, and raise privacy and federal-vs-local control concerns.
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act
The bill tightens and clarifies criminal penalties and forces BOP policy updates that aim to improve safety and consistency in prisons, but it increases criminal exposure for some people and raises fiscal and rights-related risks if enforcement or policy changes are aggressive or poorly implemented.
Promoting Police Leadership Act
The bill aims to raise the quality, transparency, and oversight of law enforcement leadership training while preserving state/local control, but it places costs and implementation burdens on smaller agencies and limits the speed and uniformity of nationwide reform while providing only short- to medium-term oversight.
Tribal Warrant Fairness Act
The bill gives Tribal governments a clearer, formal role in U.S. Marshals fugitive task forces and clarifies legal authority in Tribal jurisdictions to improve public safety, while imposing modest federal costs and added legal/operational complexity for officers.
Carla Walker Act
The bill aims to strengthen public forensic capacity and guide adoption of forensic genetic genealogy to solve cases faster, but it raises substantial privacy, equity, and cost concerns unless Congress pairs funding with clear safeguards and equitable distribution rules.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025
The bill could improve early detection and prevention of esophageal cancer for higher‑risk people and give Congress better FEHBP spending data, but it risks higher screening costs, potential overdiagnosis and equity concerns while delivering only indirect, report‑based changes to care access.
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to build and modernize a VA medical facility in St. Louis—bringing significant improvements in local veteran care and construction jobs—while imposing a sizable immediate cost on taxpayers and carrying risks of overruns and reduced funding for other VA needs.
Allied Defense Sales Act
The bill aims to strengthen allied interoperability and expand U.S. defense exports with added reporting, but does so at the risk of higher taxpayer costs, greater proliferation and oversight risks, and potential inequities among partner nations.
TRUE Accountability Act
The bill increases protections against fraudulent emergency spending and improves preparedness and oversight, but does so by adding agency compliance work and potential indirect costs and privacy risks without providing new funding.
Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act
The bill centralizes and funds standardized antifraud training and oversight to reduce improper payments across federal and subnational programs, but it imposes new training and compliance burdens, administrative complexity, and modest additional federal spending that could slow grant access for some recipients.
Government Audit and Accountability of Federally Funded State-Administered Programs Act
Countering China’s Control of the Caucasus Act
The bill improves intelligence, strategy, and oversight to better target U.S. engagement in Georgia, but that increased focus can raise costs, risk diplomatic strain, and impose short-term burdens on agency resources.
