Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer protections and clarifies review and limitation rules during collection disputes—preserving refunds and access to Tax Court—while increasing the risk of forfeiture for improperly preserved claims and raising administrative, collection, and litigation costs for taxpayers and the IRS.
Monitor Accountability Act
The bill increases transparency and limits the duration and conflicts of federal monitorships to protect local control and reduce taxpayer costs, but those reforms may shrink the pool of experienced monitors, disrupt continuity, and introduce procedural delays or administrative burdens.
Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes protecting U.S. persons and national‑security‑driven sanctions compliance from foreign judgment enforcement and liability, at the cost of reducing foreign parties' judicial remedies, increasing diplomatic friction and reciprocal risk, and creating new legal uncertainty for cross‑border commerce.
Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025
The bill makes it substantially easier for victims of Nazi‑looted art to recover property by removing time and jurisdictional barriers, while increasing litigation exposure, creating retroactive relitigation risk, and adding burdens on courts and defendants.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act
The bill clarifies the Shivwits Band's legal status and makes commercial and leasing rules more predictable—benefiting development and non‑tribal actors—while shifting dispute resolution toward state/federal fora and arbitration, which reduces tribal legal autonomy and can raise costs, uncertainty, and enforcement challenges.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill increases and reallocates bankruptcy filing-fee funding to boost trustee pay, stabilize trustee-system funding, and extend judgeships—improving administrative capacity and predictability—but it raises costs for filers, shifts more burden onto participants, and creates legal, funding-flexibility, and short-term implementation uncertainties.
SPEED Act
The bill speeds permitting and reduces duplicative reviews and litigation for project sponsors and agencies, but does so by narrowing NEPA's scope and judicial remedies in ways that reduce public participation, oversight, and protections for communities, tribes, and the environment.
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.
District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025
The bill centralizes D.C. judicial nominations with the President, clarifying who appoints judges but reducing local input and raising risks of politicized selections and transitional uncertainty.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill strengthens and stabilizes pay and funding for trustees, judges, and the bankruptcy oversight system—improving court continuity and predictability—but does so by reallocating and earmarking more filers' fees (and diverting a small annual amount to the Treasury), which raises costs for bankruptcy users, reduces funding flexibility/transparency, and creates some legal and transition risks.
EARA
The bill speeds and enforces timelines for Interior appeals and strengthens judicial review (reducing uncertainty for land and resource users) at the cost of greater administrative strain on DOI/IBLA, higher litigation risk and expense, and potential disruption to regulatory implementation.
NORRA of 2025
The bill creates a centralized, uniform, and faster framework for resolving nationwide injunctions—benefitting States and reducing conflicting orders—but does so by limiting district‑court relief for individuals and non‑State parties and concentrating high‑stakes review at the Supreme Court, which may weaken checks on executive power.
LACA
The bill formally recognizes College Station as a federal judicial location to improve local clarity and access, while producing only symbolic change and modest administrative updates without altering jurisdiction or funding.
Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial review.
The resolution publicly reaffirms congressional support for judicial independence and the separation of powers but provides no enforceable remedies and risks increasing partisan tension and legal uncertainty for federal actors.
Ensuring Justice for Camp Lejeune Victims Act of 2025
The bill makes it substantially easier and faster for many Camp Lejeune veterans to obtain compensation (by lowering causation standards, protecting more settlement proceeds, centralizing pretrial handling, and applying rules retroactively), but it increases government exposure and taxpayer cost, centralizes litigation that may burden some plaintiffs, and raises access-to-counsel concerns through fee caps and remaining offset rules.
Amend title 18, United States Code, to provide enhanced penalties for convicted murderers who kill or target America's public safety officers.
The bill strengthens federal protection and prosecutorial tools for public servants—potentially deterring attacks and improving investigations—at the cost of expanding federal capital-penalty exposure, raising fiscal and moral concerns, and creating fairness and litigation risks.
Authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.
The bill speeds federal case resolution and reduces delays for Idaho by adding a judgeship (clarified in statute) at the cost of modest new taxpayer funding and potential political appointment delays or administrative imbalances.
Specialized Infant Formula Protection Act
The bill centralizes federal jurisdiction to preserve domestic supply and create uniform adjudication for preterm infant formula cases—improving access to specialized formula and consistent rulings—but it limits state-court options, raises federal caseloads and litigation costs, and creates uncertainty for pending cases.
Monitor Accountability Act
The bill increases procedural safeguards, judicial review, transparency, and potential cost savings for court-ordered monitorships, but it may shrink and degrade the pool of qualified monitors and raise privacy and administrative burdens.
Open Meetings Act of 2026
The bill increases public transparency and creates a searchable public record of Judicial Conference meetings, at the cost of implementation expenses and some operational/privacy risks that must be managed through strict closed-session rules and waiver processes.
Diversity Jurisdiction Inflation Adjustment Act
Raising the federal diversity-jurisdiction threshold to $150,000 reduces federal court caseloads and some federal litigation costs, but it removes the federal forum for many lower-value claims and likely shifts costs and procedural burdens onto individuals and small businesses.
PLCAA Federal Jurisdiction Act
The bill centralizes disputes in federal courts to create consistent, defendant-favorable procedures and faster nationwide resolution for qualifying claims, at the cost of reduced state-court access, higher barriers and costs for small plaintiffs, and added strain on the federal judiciary.
District of Columbia Courts Judicial Vacancy Reduction Act
The bill aims to speed and clarify how D.C. judges are appointed and adds a time‑limited congressional oversight mechanism, trading off greater executive control and potential politicization, administrative burdens, and the risk of delays or legal challenges that could disrupt local courts.
Abolish the Anti-Weaponization Fund, and for other purposes.
The bill restores congressional and judicial control over DOJ settlement funds and preserves legal remedies for taxpayers, but reduces DOJ's settlement flexibility, risking higher litigation costs and transitional uncertainty for parties who relied on the prior AG order.
FEAT Act
The bill gives parties in DOI adjudications stronger and earlier access to independent de novo federal-court review, at the cost of higher litigation expenses, longer timelines, heavier federal-court caseloads, and potential erosion of specialized agency decisionmaking and policy consistency.
Amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to improve transparency, and for other purposes.
The bill increases transparency and congressional oversight of intelligence surveillance while briefly preserving Section 702 authorities, but it raises substantial national-security risks, administrative costs, and extends privacy-invading collection that could delay reforms.
Unlock American Energy and Jobs Act of 2026
The bill trades faster, more certain approvals and longer authorizations for energy and infrastructure projects—benefiting developers, utilities, and some local economies—against substantially reduced environmental review, weakened state/local enforcement, and narrower judicial oversight that increase risks to communities, ecosystems, and taxpayers.
Federal Prosecutorial Accountability Act
The bill strengthens accountability by automatically barring DOJ attorneys sanctioned under FRCP 11 and gives OPR enforcement authority, but it risks disrupting DOJ staffing and litigation practices, potentially causing career harm to attorneys and slower or costlier government legal actions for the public.
JOAN Act
The bill expedites energy project permitting and litigation—reducing costs and delays for sponsors and some local economies—while substantially limiting state authority, narrowing judicial review, and raising the risk that environmental, health, and small‑party concerns will be overlooked or harder to remediate.
Ban Presidential Plunder of Taxpayer Funds Act
The bill increases transparency and seeks to reduce public payouts and conflicts of interest in litigation over covered officials, but it narrows legal remedies for high officials, creates criminal exposure risks, raises privacy/security concerns, and adds administrative burdens.
