Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and streamlines SBIR/STTR programs and strengthens commercialization and security safeguards—helping many small firms scale and get to market faster—while increasing federal spending, concentrating benefits among established participants, adding compliance burdens, and delaying some
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
The bill increases transparency, oversight, and predictability for DHS spending and grants and protects certain workforce and enforcement capacities, but it imposes substantial reporting requirements, financial penalties, and statutory limits that reduce agency flexibility, may divert funds from infrastructure and operations, and could constrain operational options and oversight norms.
Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Recreational Drone Empowerment Act
The bill clarifies and modernizes recreational drone authorities and makes future safety updates easier, but ambiguous wording or stricter interpretation could create short-term confusion and impose new costs or limits on hobbyists and small businesses.
Aviation Supply Chain Safety and Security Digitization Act of 2025
The bill aims to reduce counterfeit aviation parts and speed approvals by moving to standardized digital records—benefiting safety, efficiency, and oversight—but it imposes transition and compliance costs, raises data‑security risks, and requires taxpayer funding and timely DOT action to realize the
Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act
The bill modernizes FAA credentialing to make presenting and managing certificates easier and more standardized, but does so at the cost of creating access challenges for less‑connected airmen, potential cybersecurity/privacy risks, and implementation expenses.
Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, data, and international cooperation to reduce illegal fishing and forced labor—bolstering fisheries sustainability and supply‑chain integrity—but does so at the cost of higher enforcement and diplomatic risks, greater compliance burdens for seafood businesses, and increased federal spending.
End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act of 2026
This bill clarifies and standardizes access to expedited air‑travel screening—promoting equal treatment and clearer agency authority—while raising privacy and fairness concerns from expanded program definitions and TSA discretion, and imposing modest administrative and operational trade‑offs.
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency, short‑term funding continuity, and implementation clarity while imposing new reporting and procedural controls that raise administrative costs, constrain agency flexibility, and add fiscal and operational trade‑offs that will largely fall on taxpayers and frontline,急
James T. Woods Act
The bill strengthens federal protections and prosecutorial tools to deter and punish online sexual extortion, coercion, and threats against minors—improving child safety and clarity for prosecutors—while expanding federal criminal reach in ways that raise free‑speech, privacy, due‑process, and fiscal concerns.
ROTOR Act
The bill boosts aviation safety, oversight, and FAA–DoD coordination by expanding ADS‑B requirements, audits, and data sharing, but does so at significant cost and with real risks to operational flexibility, privacy/security, and legal adaptability.
ACERO Act
The bill aims to strengthen wildfire response and responder coordination through NASA-led research and procurement limits that reduce security risks, but it could restrict access to affordable drones, raise privacy concerns, and divert or duplicate federal resources.
Bringing the Discount Window into the 21st Century Act
The bill aims to make the Fed's emergency lending (discount window) more reliable, transparent, and technologically resilient—helping banks and depositors—while imposing additional costs, tight remediation deadlines that could prompt rushed fixes, and some confidentiality that limits public scrutiny.
Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
The bill strengthens program integrity and reduces improper federal payments by sharing death records (saving taxpayers money and stopping duplicate payments) but raises privacy risks, risks of wrongful payment interruptions, ongoing state costs, and possible delays that may blunt some fraud-prevention gains.
AI for Main Street Act
The bill promotes AI adoption by small businesses with training and clearer definitions while preventing new federal spending — but its prohibition on additional appropriations risks undercutting implementation, shifting costs onto taxpayers or other programs, and leaving rural or vulnerable firms without adequate support or safeguards.
Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases near‑term transparency, targeted funding, and program guidance to accelerate infrastructure, safety, and tribal priorities, but does so by imposing tighter congressional controls, administrative procedures, and policy restrictions that reduce agency flexibility, create legal and budgetary uncertainty, and may delay environmental, scientific, or programmatic actions.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill increases transparency and funds a wide array of national-security, foreign‑aid, and global‑health programs while imposing large mandated spending floors and many procedural limits that raise taxpayer costs, add administrative burdens, and reduce agency and diplomatic flexibility.
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 protections, oversight, and targeted supports (notably for veterans and local fire response) and strengthens some procurement and foreign‑policy efforts, but does so while adding new reporting and administrative requirements and exposing taxpayers to increased, often open‑ended federal spending and compliance costs.
Improving Veteran Access to Care Act
The bill centralizes and modernizes VA appointment scheduling to give veterans more direct control and improve care coordination and administrative efficiency, but it requires significant upfront investment, rapid implementation, and strong cybersecurity and change management to avoid disruptions and privacy risks.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military, industrial, and security capabilities and expands supports for service members and communities — but does so at the cost of large new spending, heavier administrative and compliance burdens, constrained operational flexibility in some cases, and notable privacy, environmental, and civil‑liberties trade‑offs.
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act
Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act
The bill centralizes and standardizes federal software definitions, inventories, and oversight—producing clearer governance, potential cost savings, and better security—while imposing near-term costs, procurement constraints, vendor-market shifts, and some risks to classified handling and operational agility.
EPermit Act
The bill aims to speed permitting and reduce duplication through standardized, interoperable data and a central digital portal—helping agencies and applicants while increasing transparency—but it raises significant near‑term costs, privacy/security and proprietary risks, and implementation challenges that could constrain agency flexibility and affect environmental oversight.
Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, coordination, and victim support to disrupt offshore scam compounds and recover funds, but does so at the cost of heightened diplomatic friction, privacy and due‑process risks, increased public and private-sector costs, and uncertainty from time-limited authorities.
SBA IT Modernization Reporting Act
The bill strengthens SBA IT risk management, budgeting, and cybersecurity and increases transparency, but imposes short-term administrative burdens, potential higher procurement costs, and possible reduced vendor competition during implementation.
Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act
The bill improves support, feedback, and transparency for state, local, Tribal, and territorial grant recipients—likely making homeland security grants easier to access and more accountable—while increasing administrative burden and costs that could slightly reduce funds available for direct grants and limit program flexibility.
Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act
The bill improves awareness, coordination, and actionable guidance on AI-enabled terrorism risks—but it is unfunded and nonbinding, so it may strain agency resources and raise privacy and surveillance tradeoffs without guaranteeing stronger protections or mitigation.
Countering Threats and Attacks on Our Judges Act
The bill centralizes expertise, training, and threat reporting to better protect judges and courthouse staff, but it increases privacy risks, ongoing costs, and the chance that smaller jurisdictions or local organizations will be left behind or constrained.
PILLAR Act
The bill directs substantially more federal funding and targeted support to help state and local governments secure IT, OT, and AI systems—particularly benefiting rural and multi‑jurisdiction collaborations—but does so alongside procurement restrictions, new compliance requirements, and funding‑flexibility limits that may raise costs, delay purchases, and strain under‑resourced jurisdictions.
