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.
Count the Crimes to Cut Act
The bill improves transparency and oversight of federal criminal law for the public, businesses, and policymakers, but it does so without new funding and creates administrative and privacy risks for agencies and individuals.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill increases federal involvement in DC to improve public safety and public‑space upkeep and transparency, but it raises taxpayer costs, risks to civil liberties (especially for immigrants and minority communities), potential local‑federal tensions, and trade‑offs around firearms access.
Smart Space Act of 2026
The legislation aims to cut federal real estate costs and boost transparency by encouraging private financing, faster consolidation, and mission-focused site use, but it risks ceding long-term control, increasing lifetime costs, reducing local service access, and weakening oversight.
Federal Building Threat Notification Act
The bill standardizes emergency notifications and assigns facility accountability to improve safety and transparency in Federal buildings, while imposing modest costs, administrative burdens, and a risk of uneven implementation.
To direct the Administrator of General Services to submit a report to Congress on the state of the real estate portfolio of the Public Building Service, and for other purposes.
The bill increases transparency and data-driven management of federal real property to enable potential cost savings and stronger oversight, while imposing administrative costs, disclosure risks for tenant agencies, and a risk of disruptive relocations if actions are not properly funded or phased.
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
Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act of 2026
The bill substantially raises boxer health, safety, pay, and transparency standards — improving protections and fairness for fighters and fans — but does so at the cost of higher compliance and staffing expenses that could reduce smaller promotions, raise consumer prices, strain medical staffing (especially in rural areas), and create implementation and accountability challenges.
Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act
The bill commissions an evidence-gathering study on satellite broadband that could improve connectivity and economic opportunity in rural ARC areas, but it introduces administrative costs and the risk of delaying on-the-ground broadband deployment while waiting for results.
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.
Gateway Partnership Act
The bill clarifies who manages partnerships and protects public access, park resources, and taxpayers by shifting event costs to a designated nonprofit for a limited time, but it concentrates event control with a single private partner and reduces government liability—raising concerns about privatiz
Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
The bill intensifies pressure on Iran’s oil- and petrochemical-driven financing—strengthening U.S. national security and enforcement—while trading off higher economic costs for American consumers and businesses, increased compliance and legal risks, and potential diplomatic and humanitarian side‑imp
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill directs substantial new federal support, coordination, and regulatory changes to speed housing production, preserve and repair affordable units, and strengthen tenant/homeowner protections—especially for disaster-affected and low-income households—but it does so while easing some environmental and procedural safeguards, increasing administrative burdens and funding uncertainty, and creating trade-offs that may dilute resources or disrupt markets.
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
Apache County and Navajo County Conveyance Act of 2025
The bill gives two rural counties small parcels of National Forest land for cemeteries at no purchase price—providing local control and modest federal cost savings—but shifts conveyance costs, legal/title and environmental risks to the counties and reduces federal public land holdings.
Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2025
Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act
The bill strengthens detection, referral, oversight, and consistency in how trafficking is defined and addressed—likely helping more victims—but does so by creating recurring administrative costs, privacy risks, possible exclusions for people outside the TVPA definition, and implementation burdens.
National STEM Week Act
The bill raises the profile and coordination of STEM outreach through a National STEM Week, clearer definitions, and reporting — expanding exposure and school–industry linkages — but it relies on industry support and existing staff capacity without dedicated federal funding, risking uneven access and added administrative burdens.
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.
Information Quality Assurance Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency by forcing agencies to publish evidence, guidance, and—when allowed—open data to support rulemaking, but it does so without new funding and raises privacy and implementation-capacity risks that could burden agencies and affected individuals.
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.
Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
The bill increases hiring flexibility and opportunity in federal contracting for people without degrees and modernizes procurement rules, but trades off added agency paperwork, legal risk from inconsistent application, and possible quality risks for certain specialized roles.
Recognizing the 15th anniversary of the January 8, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, shooting and honoring the survivors and victims, including former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a gun violence survivor and one of the most influential voices of courage in the United States in the fight to end gun violence.
The resolution honors victims and spotlights first responders and anti-gun-violence advocacy—helping healing and policy attention—but risks deepening polarization and being used to justify contested spending or regulations.
Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025
The bill creates a focused, resourced advisory body and cleans up inactive VA advisory committees to improve accessibility, efficiency, and oversight, but risks unmet recommendations, reduced specialized representation, participation barriers for unpaid members, modest taxpayer costs, and potential political friction with Congress.
Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2025
The bill adds procedural protections and interagency consultation to reduce arbitrary designations of systemically risky nonbanks, but those added steps could delay regulatory action and make it harder to impose timely safeguards, potentially increasing systemic risk and costs to taxpayers.
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.
