Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2026
The bill creates financial incentives, transparency, and oversight to find and rescind wasteful federal spending—potentially saving taxpayer money—but raises risks of program disruptions from rescissions, added administrative burdens from incentives, and reduced participation by some oversight personnel.
US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
The bill strengthens trilateral legislative and executive coordination to improve regional security, predictability, and transparency, but it raises trade‑offs around potential fiscal costs, risks of military entanglement, civil‑liberties impacts from counter‑disinformation measures, and politicization or influence concerns.
Block the Use of Transatlantic Technology in Iranian Made Drones Act
The bill seeks to better block Iran's drone and missile supply chains and protect U.S. forces and allies through coordinated controls, sanctions, and interdiction tools, but does so at the expense of higher compliance and administrative costs, potential supply‑chain disruption, reduced transparency, and some risk of escalation.
Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act
The bill centralizes congressional control over appointments and restructures personnel rules at the Library, GPO, and Copyright Office to speed staffing and clarify employee rules—improving operational continuity and some workplace protections—while increasing risks of politicization, reduced external oversight, implementation costs, and potential impacts on public access and civil-service norms.
Ukraine Support Act
The bill boosts long‑term U.S. support for Ukraine and allied deterrence — increasing predictability for sanctions and financing and protecting humanitarian flows — at the cost of significant taxpayer exposure, higher economic and administrative burdens, potential trade frictions, and reduced flexibility that could complicate diplomacy or raise escalation risks.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects them from losing rights based solely on VA administrative fiduciary or competence determinations, but it does so at the cost of potentially reducing law-enforcement access to mental-competency information and increasing public-safety risks and administrative burdens by shifting determinations to courts.
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
The bill would place the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall Reserve and push for broader, more transparent, and inclusive programming — increasing visibility and oversight — but raises risks of taxpayer costs, shifts in agency control over Reserve land, and potential constraints on curatorial discretion.
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.
The resolution increases multi-year budget predictability and speeds some budget processes (helping defense, certain agencies, and reconciliation-driven priorities) but does so by locking in ceilings and concentrating procedural power in ways that reduce flexibility, oversight, and could constrain investments or rights protections.
Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act
The bill aims to speed and clarify veterans' access to appointments and temporarily preserve pension payments, but those gains come with new federal costs, operational strain and rollout risks (including privacy/interoperability concerns) that could disrupt care during implementation.
Withholding the pay of Senators if a Government shutdown occurs.
The bill withholds Senators' pay during funding shutdowns but restores it afterward to discourage prolonged shutdowns while preserving overall compensation, trading short-term financial and administrative burdens and a potential reduction in immediate political pressure for the potential benefit of fewer or shorter shutdowns.
988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2026
The bill aims to improve 988 crisis response and accessibility through a coordinated study and committee while limiting near-term federal spending, but it risks delays, privacy trade-offs, operational disruption, and added costs that could fall on taxpayers, providers, or consumers.
Authorizing the use of the Capitol Grounds for the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service and the National Honor Guard and Pipe Band Exhibition.
The resolution authorizes and enables a high-profile, free public memorial for fallen law enforcement officers—providing recognition, public engagement, and safety protections—while shifting costs and logistical responsibilities to sponsors and imposing additional security and enforcement burdens on taxpayers, federal staff, and some vendors, with possible perceptions of preferential access or free-speech concerns.
First Responder Network Authority Reauthorization Act of 2026
The bill strengthens oversight, reporting, board representation, and outage/continuity capabilities to improve first-responder communications and accountability, but does so by centralizing authority and adding compliance and reporting requirements that could raise costs, slow non-emergency actions, and introduce privacy/security and governance trade-offs.
Count the Crimes to Cut Act
The bill increases transparency and clarity about federal criminal statutes and enforcement—helping citizens, lawyers, businesses, and oversight—at the cost of imposing substantial data-collection burdens on agencies that could produce delays, uneven reporting, or politicized scrutiny without additional resources.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public safety, transit security, and the cleanliness/appearance of Washington, D.C., while increasing federal oversight and enforcement—but these gains come with higher costs, potential resource diversion from services, jurisdictional friction with local authorities, and significant civil‑liberties and immigrant‑community impacts.
Make technical corrections to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026.
The bill raises the standard and integrity of military legal representation by requiring judge advocates to keep active law licenses, but it may reduce the available pool of military lawyers and unintentionally complicate a specific veteran recognition provision.
National STEM Week Act
The bill coordinates a National STEM Week and related guidance to expand student exposure, teacher support, and industry partnerships—potentially boosting STEM interest and local workforce pipelines—but does so with new costs, administrative burdens, equity and digital‑access risks, and only temporary authorization unless further funded and sustained.
Recognizing the 15th anniversary of the January 8, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, shooting and honoring the survivors and victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a gun violence survivor and one of the most influential voices of courage in the United States in the fight to end gun violence.
The resolution gives national recognition to victims and encourages anti-violence advocacy and civility, while risking perceptions of a policy stance on gun rights and potentially drawing modest legislative attention away from other priorities.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill creates clearer, more predictable fee allocations, deposit rules, and temporary-judge continuity to stabilize bankruptcy administration, but does so by diverting fees to the Treasury and fixing per-case dollar allocations—trading short-term predictability and centralization for risks of underfunding over time, reduced judicial turnover, and transitional fairness/administrative burdens.
No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act
The bill increases U.S. leverage, oversight, and protections for women and minorities by conditioning engagement and requiring reporting, but it risks disrupting humanitarian assistance, reducing diplomatic flexibility, exposing operational risks, and imposing administrative and potential fiscal costs.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs sizable infrastructure, cleanup, energy, and emergency resources and increases congressional transparency and fiscal controls, but it does so at the cost of tighter agency constraints, added procurement and administrative burdens, concentrated interpretive authority, and fiscal and programmatic trade‑offs that may slow implementation and affect state, local, tribal, and private partners.
Remote Access Security Act
The bill strengthens national security and clarifies government authority over remote access to controlled technologies while increasing compliance costs, legal risk, and the potential for operational disruption or slower rulemaking that could dilute or delay protections.
Breaking the Gridlock Act
The bill advances consumer privacy, oversight, veteran supports, emergency response fixes, and symbolic national heritage while imposing new administrative duties, regulatory and procurement burdens, and additional federal costs that shift trade‑offs between stronger protections/accountability and higher taxpayer and public‑sector implementation burdens.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill delivers sizable boosts to defense readiness, industrial-base resilience, allied support, and service-member protections while substantially expanding reporting and control authorities—trading greater capability, transparency, and domestic industrial investment against higher costs, heavier administrative burdens, compliance friction for contractors, and new privacy and operational‑rigidity risks.
Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill speeds and clarifies delivery and administration of Secure Rural Schools funding and extends program authorities through FY2025—benefiting state and local planning and reducing legal ambiguity—while lowering net payments for some jurisdictions (due to offsets), adding administrative and budgetary trade-offs, and creating implementation uncertainties for advisory committees and federal administrators.
Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act
The bill increases transparency about FARA exemption claims on lobbying disclosure forms—helping oversight and public awareness—while imposing modest compliance costs, potential reputational risks, and legal uncertainty for registrants.
Protect America's Workforce Act
The bill preserves existing federal labor protections and contract terms—protecting employees and providing near-term budget predictability—while limiting agencies' ability to implement reforms and potentially maintaining higher personnel costs for taxpayers until contracts expire.
Tax Court Improvement Act
The bill strengthens Tax Court procedural tools, fairness standards, and protections for late filings—speeding and legitimizing adjudications—while raising compliance costs, privacy risks, and procedural/due‑process and delay concerns for taxpayers, third parties, and court administration.
Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC Act of 2025
The bill restores prior D.C. policing statutes to preserve legal continuity and some existing provisions, but does so by rolling back parts of the 2022 reforms—tradeoffs that may weaken oversight, erode community trust, and invite legal challenges.
Epstein Files Transparency Act
The bill greatly increases public transparency and congressional oversight of DOJ records related to Epstein and Maxwell, but it raises substantial privacy, reputational, prosecutorial, and resource risks by mandating rapid, broad disclosure with limited redaction discretion.
