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.
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.
BRAVE Burma Act
The bill strengthens U.S. leverage, transparency, and humanitarian engagement to pressure Myanmar’s junta and support victims, while imposing fiscal and administrative costs, raising risks of diplomatic friction and potential escalation that could complicate aid and economic ties.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
This bill combines substantial new funding priorities for defense, foreign assistance, health, and infrastructure with broad transparency and accountability measures — but does so while imposing many reporting requirements, limits on agency flexibility, rescissions, and compliance costs that raise spending pressures, could slow rapid responses, and shift burdens onto agencies, providers, and recipients.
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.
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.
Commemorating 30 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam on July 11, 2025.
The resolution strengthens U.S.-Vietnam ties—boosting security cooperation, trade, education, and recognition of immigrant communities—while requiring continued taxpayer support and potentially reducing leverage on human-rights issues and creating economic competition for some U.S. workers.
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and gives Congress tools to identify and curb costly, delayed federal projects—potentially saving taxpayer money and improving accountability—at the cost of added reporting and implementation expenses, risks to commercially sensitive information, and greater politicization of funding disputes.
Public Lands Military Readiness Act of 2025
Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act
The bill strengthens and centralizes federal efforts and provides targeted risk assessments to better defend U.S. critical infrastructure from PRC-linked cyber threats, but it does so with reduced transparency, potential limits on sharing classified information with operators, added costs, and a narrow focus on a single adversary.
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 makes large, coordinated investments to strengthen military readiness, the defense industrial base, cyber/AI defenses, and housing/disaster resilience while expanding oversight and support for service members — but it substantially increases federal spending, administrative burdens, restrictions on research and certain rights, and conditions that could delay operations or concentrate executive authority.
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.
Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026
The bill substantially strengthens U.S. military readiness, industrial capacity, health protections, and oversight through new funding, procurement authorities, and reporting — but at the cost of higher taxpayer spending, large administrative burdens, tighter limits on foreign collaboration and researcher freedoms, and several privacy/environmental tradeoffs that could slow operations or raise long‑term liabilities.
ARMOR Act
The bill accelerates allied logistics and export cooperation—likely improving readiness and easing export burdens for many defense firms—at the cost of reduced direct congressional notifications, potential security risks from faster approvals, uncertain economic impacts on some U.S. suppliers, and added administrative obligations.
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025
The bill strengthens Coast Guard capacity, personnel support, maritime safety, and victim protections while increasing federal spending, adding significant administrative and procurement constraints, and introducing privacy, legal, and readiness tradeoffs that must be managed.
Honoring the deep and enduring friendship between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States on the occasion of Danish Constitution Day celebrations.
The resolution bolsters U.S.–Denmark security cooperation and economic ties—strengthening NATO burden-sharing and supporting U.S. jobs—but risks policy entanglement, shifts in budgetary focus toward defense, and uneven distribution of economic benefits.
Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Strategic Ports Reporting Act
DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act
The bill strengthens national-security protections and oversight by steering DHS funds away from programs tied to high-risk foreign entities, at the cost of disrupting academic programs, chilling benign collaborations, potential reputational harms, and added compliance costs for colleges and universities.
MEGOBARI Act
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.
The resolution creates a detailed, multi-year fiscal and procedural roadmap aimed at achieving large deficit reductions and stronger defense funding, at the cost of concentrating procedural power in budget chairs and significant risk of cuts to mandatory social programs, constrained flexibility, and weaker regulatory safeguards.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill prevents service interruptions and funds critical health, housing, defense, and disaster needs in the near term, but does so by committing large advance and emergency appropriations that increase near‑term federal outlays, limit some congressional flexibility and oversight, and create short‑term funding and transparency trade‑offs.
Subterranean Border Defense Act
The bill increases reporting to strengthen detection and response to cross-border tunnels for law enforcement and border communities, at the cost of added federal administrative burden and a risk of revealing sensitive operational details.
