Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and oversight for many federal awards and improves data quality, but delivers incomplete coverage and imposes new administrative costs and transitional delays that leave some spending and lower-tier recipients still opaque.
Officer John Barnes and Chief Michael Ansbro Public Safety Officers' Benefit Program Expansion Act of 2026
The bill speeds and increases near‑term financial support and program transparency for public safety officers and their families (through interim payments, a new partial‑disability benefit, outreach, and stronger oversight) but raises taxpayer costs, increases administrative burdens, and elevates the risk of improper payments when external certifications are given decisive weight.
Federal Building Threat Notification Act
The bill improves real‑time threat alerts and formalizes accountability and preparedness for FPS‑protected federal buildings, at the cost of added administrative expense and the risk of uneven implementation or operational disruptions from overly sensitive alerting.
Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act of 2025
The bill reduces arbitrary degree barriers and increases procurement oversight—potentially widening bidder pools and lowering costs—at the cost of extra administrative burden, transitional uncertainty, and possible constraints on requiring specialized academic credentials for technical roles.
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act
The bill increases federal situational awareness and accountability for Northern Border security through recurring analyses, strategy updates, and performance measures while avoiding a direct new appropriation — but it raises civil‑liberties and transparency concerns and may struggle to be implemented effectively because it provides no new funding, shifting costs or causing delays.
Ensuring Federal Purchasing Efficiency Act
The bill creates useful predictability for agencies and businesses by fixing a regular three‑year schedule for acquisition threshold updates starting in 2028, but it reduces flexibility to respond quickly when economic conditions demand faster adjustments, risking misaligned procurement and higher costs.
Stop Insider Trading Act
The bill tightens in-person voting security and clarifies ID rules while preserving a short cure path, but it risks disenfranchising vulnerable voters and imposes financial and administrative burdens on voters and election officials.
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act
The bill increases transparency and standardized reporting around large troubled federal projects—helping taxpayers and policymakers spot and fix problems—but imposes administrative costs on agencies, risks disclosure complications for sensitive programs, and could prompt politically driven delays that raise costs.
Main Street Capital Access Act
This bill leans toward easing burdens, increasing predictability, and boosting transparency for banks—especially smaller institutions—while accelerating approvals and limiting some supervisory tools, a trade‑off that may lower costs and preserve local banking but increases litigation, administrative costs, and potential risks to competition, depositor safety, and taxpayers.
Putting Patients First by Strengthening Provider Accountability in FECA Act
The bill strengthens FECA program integrity and protects taxpayer funds by allowing suspension of payments to convicted providers, but it risks disrupting care for injured federal employees and creating administrative burdens or unfair exclusions if suspensions are applied too broadly or before full review.
Federal Relocation Payment Improvement Act
The bill simplifies and speeds relocation payments for federal employees and reduces agency administrative burden, but risks undercompensating some movers and creating uneven treatment across agencies while adding reporting costs.
Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2026
The bill strengthens and broadens whistleblower protections and official accountability for those working on public contracts, at the cost of higher compliance and legal burdens, potential increases in disputes, and some programmatic delays.
Failing Bank Acquisition Fairness Act
The bill increases transparency and legal guardrails to limit risky consolidations and ensure statutory compliance—strengthening oversight and protecting competition and deposit insurance funds—at the cost of added administrative burdens and stricter standards that could slow emergency rescues and reduce resolution flexibility, potentially raising costs in a crisis.
Homeland Security Capabilities Preservation Reporting Act of 2026
The bill aims to make it easier for the Defense Department to carry out programs for military and federal personnel, but does so at the risk of legal ambiguity and potentially higher defense spending that would fall on taxpayers.
Measuring Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Act
The bill strengthens DHS information sharing and accountability to improve detection and interdiction of illicit fentanyl, but raises privacy and civil‑liberties risks and adds administrative burdens with a risk of perverse incentives from metrics.
Major Non-NATO Ally Terror Threat Assessment Act
The bill improves U.S. ability to identify and respond to terrorism threats (including threats using emerging technologies) and strengthens congressional oversight, but it raises privacy, cost, information‑security, and diplomatic risks that must be managed.
ELO Realignment and Strategic Engagement Reform Act of 2026
The bill centralizes and standardizes ELO functions to improve continuity, efficiency, and congressional oversight for SLTT intelligence support, but it restricts DHS staffing flexibility and may disrupt employees, local partnerships, and privacy/oversight arrangements during the transition.
Recover COVID Unemployment Fraud in Banks Act
The bill strengthens government ability to locate and recover improper pandemic unemployment payments and deters fraud by extending enforcement windows and standardizing recovery procedures, but it increases legal exposure for recipients and creates administrative and compliance costs for individuals, state agencies, financial institutions, and some federal implementation expenses.
Small Business Lending Fraud Prevention Act
The bill strengthens conflict-of-interest safeguards and accountability for SBA lending, improving trust and protection for borrowers and taxpayers, but imposes new administrative and compliance burdens that may slow loan processing and raise agency costs.
SECURE Grid Act
The bill improves preparedness, local‑distribution reliability, supply‑chain resilience, and federal accountability for energy security, but it does so at the cost of added state and utility compliance expenses, a potential reduction in federal flexibility, a time‑limited authority that creates planning uncertainty, and tradeoffs between sharing sensitive security information and public transparency.
Main Street Competes Act
The bill strengthens protections and transparency for small businesses and could boost competition for consumers, but it increases demands on federal agencies and raises costs and risks for some businesses and investigations.
SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and congressional oversight of SBA AI/ML use and protects human involvement in decisions, but does so at the cost of added administrative burden for the SBA and some risk that disclosures could reveal sensitive procurement or system details.
Oversight and Transparency for Small Business Certifications Act of 2026
The bill increases transparency and oversight of small-business certification outcomes—helping disadvantaged firms and public accountability—while creating extra reporting work for the SBA that could slow certification processing if not resourced.
COVID Fraud Transparency Act of 2026
The bill would increase transparency and give Congress tools to detect and deter COVID-era SBA loan fraud—potentially protecting legitimate small businesses—but it creates privacy and resource burdens and may be undercut or blocked in practice because the Act is barred from receiving funding, meaning its intended oversight may not be implemented.
DLARA
The bill substantially increases transparency, forecasting, and congressional visibility into SBA disaster loan costs—helping taxpayers, lawmakers, and small businesses plan and oversee funding—at the cost of added administrative burdens on the SBA, potential delays or reduced flexibility in program delivery, and a risk of increased near‑term federal spending.
MAP for Broadband Funding Act
The bill centralizes and standardizes broadband funding data and definitions to reduce duplication, improve targeting, and speed deployment — but it increases administrative burdens, risks locking in mapping errors that could leave some communities behind, and raises privacy and flexibility concerns.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully boosts federal spending transparency and oversight by requiring publication, verification, and reporting of award data (including Other Transaction Agreements), but it creates implementation and ongoing compliance costs for agencies and contractors and will still leave some sensitive awards undisclosed.
Promoting Police Leadership Act
The bill aims to improve police leadership, wellness, and training quality while increasing transparency and federal oversight, but it does so at the cost of added administrative and financial burdens, risks of uneven state-by-state outcomes, and potential civil liberties concerns if curricula lack adequate safeguards.
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025
The bill increases transparency and seeks to place more children with relatives and culturally appropriate families through required recruitment plans and reporting, but it creates ongoing administrative costs, implementation burdens for some states, and privacy risks that must be managed.
Taxpayer Funds Oversight and Accountability Act
The bill strengthens financial transparency, CFO accountability, and cost‑performance alignment to improve oversight and reduce improper payments, at the cost of higher compliance burdens, more centralized management of CFO priorities, and some risk of exposing sensitive details if not carefully redacted.
