Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
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.
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.
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.
Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act
The bill extends and beefs up SBIR/STTR commercialization support, procurement speed, and national‑security vetting—helping many small innovators scale—while increasing program costs, administrative burdens, and risks to competition, transparency, and privacy for some firms and taxpayers.
ROTOR Act
The bill strengthens safety, transparency, and military–civil coordination in U.S. airspace—benefiting pilots, passengers, and oversight—but does so at the expense of equipment costs for aircraft owners, added administrative burdens, and potential risks to sensitive military operations and data.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial, targeted funding and tightens transparency and oversight—strengthening strategic foreign and some domestic programs and taxpayer protections—while imposing many new controls, earmarks, and restrictions that increase administrative burden, reduce executive flexibility, and raise near‑term fiscal costs.
Recognizing the achievements and contributions of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter to the national defense of the United States and its allies and honoring the dedication, service, and sacrifice of the United States Army aviators, maintainers, and support personnel who operate and sustain the Apache.
The resolution raises the profile of the Apache and domestic aerospace suppliers—supporting military interoperability and local manufacturing visibility—while remaining purely honorary and creating no binding funding, policy changes, or taxpayer protections.
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.
Commemorating 30 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam on July 11, 2025.
The resolution deepens U.S.–Vietnam ties—advancing veterans' remediation, trade, security, education, and immigrant inclusion—while trading off increased competition for some U.S. workers, potential taxpayer costs, and possible limits on human-rights leverage.
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2025
The bill increases standardized transparency and congressional oversight of major federal project cost overruns and delays—likely reducing waste and improving management—but imposes reporting burdens, reputational risks for contractors, and could inadvertently reveal sensitive program details.
Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025
The bill secures military training lands and clears up acreage records through 2051—supporting defense readiness and administrative clarity—but it locks those lands out of other public or private uses for decades, limiting local development and taxing options.
Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
This bill secures funding continuity and expands targeted services (notably for veterans, health care access, and rural programs) for early FY2026 while trading off higher federal outlays, weakened budget enforcement and oversight, program rescissions, and added constraints and administrative burdens on agencies.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill strengthens U.S. defense readiness, industrial capacity, veteran/family supports, housing recovery, and cybersecurity—at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative and compliance burdens, constraints on flexibility and some civil‑liberties/privacy tradeoffs, and potential disruptions to research and international economic ties.
Strengthening Support for American Manufacturing Act
The bill sharpens federal focus, oversight, and targeted support for critical supply chains and manufacturing—improving coordination and resilience—while risking broader federal intervention, added compliance burdens, and potential taxpayer and implementation costs.
Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act
The bill strengthens federal criminal protections and prosecutorial clarity for sexual contact with minors and in federal custody — improving victim protection and deterrence — but does so while narrowing certain defenses, risking retroactive exposure for past conduct, and imposing modest administrative burdens on federal agencies.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill aims to strengthen U.S. military readiness, domestic industrial capacity, and service member supports through sweeping investments and new authorities—but does so at the cost of substantial new federal spending, added bureaucracy, tighter restrictions on research and rights in some areas, and risks of procurement or operational tradeoffs and local disruptions.
ARMOR Act
The bill speeds and streamlines allied defense logistics and cross-border transfers—improving readiness and lowering some costs—while trading off reduced congressional notification, possible security risks from faster approvals, and added administrative burdens without guaranteed new resources.
Made-in-America Defense Act
The bill accelerates weapons deliveries and commercial sales—improving allied readiness and industry opportunities—while trading off reduced FMS oversight, higher export‑control and end‑use risks, and increased administrative costs for taxpayers and agencies.
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill directs substantial new resources to veterans, rural communities, and military readiness while increasing oversight and targeting supports, but it also creates procurement, procedural, and research restrictions and sizable near‑term spending that could raise costs, slow agency action, and constrain flexibility.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
This bill strengthens Coast Guard personnel, capabilities, victim support, and oversight while improving maritime safety, but does so at significant fiscal and administrative cost and with privacy, procedural, and operational trade‑offs that could burden personnel, operators, and taxpayers.
Strategic Ports Reporting Act
Strengthening the Quad Act
The bill strengthens U.S. diplomatic, security, and economic coordination with Quad partners—improving crisis response and offering alternatives to predatory financing in the Indo‑Pacific—at the cost of higher federal spending, added administrative commitments, and the risk of geopolitical backlash and ethical challenges.
Economic Espionage Prevention Act
The bill strengthens tools to block sensitive technology from reaching Russia and increases congressional oversight, but does so at the cost of higher compliance burdens, diplomatic friction with the PRC, potential due-process and travel impacts, and new regulatory uncertainty for businesses.
Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
This concurrent budget resolution offers a 10-year fiscal blueprint and tools to pursue up to $2 trillion in deficit reduction and policy changes—providing predictability for defense, health, research, and tax planning—while concentrating procedural power and risking cuts to benefits, reduced flexibility in crises, higher long‑term debt if offsets fail, and environmental and regulatory tradeoffs.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill funds and sustains a wide range of defense, veterans, health, infrastructure, and research programs to avoid shutdowns and preserve near‑term services, but does so by increasing federal spending, extending temporary authorities, and reducing some oversight and multi‑year certainty—shifting fiscal and accountability risks into the near future.
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill boosts Coast Guard capacity, personnel supports, victim protections, and maritime/infrastructure modernization—but does so at the cost of substantial new spending, added administrative burdens, and some tradeoffs in privacy, oversight, and regulatory flexibility.
Safe and Smart Federal Purchasing Act
The bill forces a fast, focused review of whether LPTA procurements pose national-security risks—improving oversight and enabling safer buying decisions, at the cost of OMB workload and potential higher contractor costs and slower acquisitions for public programs.
An original resolution authorizing expenditures by committees of the Senate for the periods March 1, 2025, through September 30, 2025, October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, and October 1, 2026, through February 28, 2027.
The resolution preserves and funds Senate committee operations and oversight across many policy areas with predictable spending limits, while increasing taxpayer-funded contingent outlays and creating trade-offs around agency resource diversion, limits on outside expertise, and reduced procedural transparency.
