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.
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill improves federal detection and recovery of improper payments through expanded data access, verification, and standardized reporting—but does so at the cost of significant new privacy and data‑sharing risks and substantial administrative and cash‑flow burdens on states, recipients, and some beneficiaries.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
This bill aims to create a comprehensive federal framework that promotes clearer classifications, custody protections, and pathways for legitimate digital‑asset activity to expand market participation and safety, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, carving out jurisdictional limits that risk oversight gaps, and creating tradeoffs that could reduce some investor protections and push activities offshore.
Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
The bill trades substantially increased transparency, convenience, and electronic access to IRS services for taxpayers (and tools for preparers) against elevated privacy/security risks, implementation and ongoing costs, and potential inequities for those without reliable online access.
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens privacy, limits targeted advertising, and increases oversight for children and teens—giving families greater control and potential policy improvements—at the cost of higher compliance and operational burdens for online services (especially small businesses), legal uncertainty for operators, and possible reductions in features or access for youth.
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and public access to the evidence behind agency rules and creates correction pathways, but does so without new funding and with added procedural requirements that may raise costs, slow rulemaking, and pose privacy or proprietary disclosure challenges.
Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act
The bill helps small businesses adopt AI more safely by providing SBA-delivered, regularly updated voluntary guidance and cybersecurity best practices, but it relies on taxpayer-funded implementation and nonbinding recommendations that may leave some firms—especially resource-constrained or specialized ones—without adequate support.
ASCEND Act
The bill makes NASA a larger buyer and distributor of commercial Earth imagery—improving agency operations, research access, and U.S. vendor demand—while creating tradeoffs around privacy, ongoing taxpayer costs, vendor-imposed access limits, and potential constraints on foreign data sources.
MAPWaters Act of 2025
The bill creates standardized, publicly accessible geospatial data and clearer roles to improve safety, coordination, and conservation communication for waterways, but does so with new costs, reporting and implementation burdens, potential constraints on state flexibility and access, and risks to sensitive sites and data privacy.
Federal Maritime Commission Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens FMC oversight, stakeholder input, data protections, and near-term port funding while increasing confidentiality barriers and compliance requirements that could reduce transparency, impose costs on smaller shippers and carriers, and concentrate agency discretion.
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.
ADS for Mental Health Services Act
Requires large digital platforms to report PSA activity and estimated ad value to boost transparency and visibility of free/local mental‑health resources, at the cost of compliance expenses, added privacy risks, exemptions for smaller platforms, and a limited 5‑year duration.
ASCEND Act
The bill expands access to commercial Earth-observation data and boosts U.S. vendors through prioritized procurement and transparency, but risks higher taxpayer costs, reduced competition, legal limits on downstream uses, and disclosure of sensitive vendor information.
Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
This bill increases regulatory clarity, pediatric and transplant-focused initiatives, and transparency that can improve access and oversight, but it does so while raising federal costs, imposing new administrative burdens, and introducing risks that could delay pediatric data, weaken enforcement incentives, and shift incentives for drug developers.
SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill directs substantial new funding and program changes to expand prevention, treatment, and support for substance use and behavioral health—potentially improving access and capacity—while increasing federal spending, administrative requirements, and some legal/privacy risks that could complicate implementation and unevenly affect access across states.
Improve the safety and security of Members of Congress, immediate family members of Members of Congress, and congressional staff.
The bill enhances rapid privacy protections and legal remedies for covered officials and their families to reduce safety risks, while creating costs, legal uncertainty, and potential reductions in press access and public transparency.
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
The bill would make marine and fishing access data more standardized and widely available—greatly improving safety, planning, and interagency coordination—while raising costs, privacy/cultural-site risks, and some regulatory uncertainty for fishers and local communities unless safeguards and limits are carefully implemented.
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
The bill would substantially strengthen wildfire forecasting, data sharing, and responder capacity — improving safety and planning for many communities — at the cost of significant federal spending, expanded data‑sharing (and related privacy/cybersecurity risks), and added administrative burden that could slow near‑term deployments and alter local authority.
Uyghur Policy Act of 2025
GENIUS Act
The bill trades broader consumer protections, financial‑stability safeguards, and a clear federal regulatory regime for payment stablecoins against higher compliance costs, reduced competition/innovation (especially for smaller or decentralized projects), greater federal preemption, and privacy/enforcement tradeoffs that may raise fees and limit some cross‑border choices.
Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act
The bill prioritizes privacy, banking-sector stability, and congressional control by preventing the Federal Reserve from creating a retail CBDC, but that protection comes at the cost of slower payment innovation, reduced options for financial inclusion, constrained policy tools, and increased uncertainty for fintech innovation.
Consumer Safety Technology Act
The bill aims to promote regulatory clarity, fraud detection, and agency transparency around tokens and marketplace hazards but does so by centralizing authority, expanding definitions, and deploying AI and studies in ways that could raise costs, delay action, risk privacy and accuracy, and shift enforcement burdens.
Shandra Eisenga Human Cell and Tissue Product Safety Act
Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2025
The bill centralizes federal leadership to clarify definitions, coordinate standards, and support blockchain adoption—potentially lowering costs and improving oversight—while imposing taxpayer-funded programs, concentrating authority, and creating risks that recommendations and narrow definitions could advantage incumbents, limit stakeholders, or raise privacy and legal‑coverage concerns.
TAKE IT DOWN Act
The bill strengthens protections and fast-removal remedies for victims of nonconsensual and AI-manipulated intimate images, but it also creates new criminal and compliance risks for platforms and users that could chill lawful speech, raise privacy concerns for victims, and impose burdens on smaller services.
DETERRENT Act
The bill increases transparency and tools to detect and mitigate foreign influence in higher education and research, improving accountability and safeguarding sensitive research, but it imposes substantial reporting burdens, privacy risks, and strict penalties that could reduce funding, deter collaborations, and threaten institutions and students.
DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act
The bill directs federal investment to accelerate integrated energy‑and‑agriculture research, infrastructure, and workforce development—boosting innovation and rural resilience but increasing taxpayer costs and raising risks around data privacy, equitable grant access, and potential land‑use conflicts.
Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act
The bill improves transparency and clarity around federal disaster assistance—helping governments, communities, and watchdogs detect waste and coordinate recovery—while creating new quarterly reporting costs, potential privacy/security risks, and the possibility of expanded eligibility that raises fiscal and administrative burdens.
Expressing that any attempt by foreign entities to censor or penalize constitutionally protected speech of United States persons shall be opposed.
The bill reinforces and clarifies protections for free expression online for Americans but creates risks of higher economic costs for platforms and users, reduced international moderation cooperation, and potential diplomatic friction.
Designating the week beginning September 7, 2025, as "National Direct Support Professionals Week".
This resolution trades faster, data-driven improvements in support and planning for people with disabilities and the direct care workforce against the risk of short-term delays for policy fixes and potential increased taxpayer costs to fund targeted workforce interventions.
