Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026
The bill strengthens Title IV payment integrity and oversight to reduce fraud and taxpayer losses, but it risks delaying or blocking timely aid for vulnerable students, raises privacy and data‑security concerns, and increases administrative burdens on schools.
ZOMBIE Act
The bill improves measurement and risk-based controls to better detect and prevent improper federal payments, but does so at the cost of higher agency compliance burden, narrower reporting of problem payments, and less frequent public visibility.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill strengthens agencies' ability to pause/segment payments and requires notice and faster contest procedures to reduce improper payments, but it also risks delaying funds for needy recipients, creating recurring interruptions for programs with frequent flags, and producing uneven implementation due to narrow definitions and guidance reliance.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act
The bill boosts transparency and accountability around FERC licensing to help address multi‑year backlogs, but it imposes reporting costs and may increase scrutiny or litigation that could slow some projects.
Faster Labor Contracts Act
The bill trades faster, enforceable paths to first contracts and shorter dispute timelines—which can deliver quicker pay and stability for workers—for binding outcomes, compressed negotiation flexibility, higher potential costs to employers/consumers, and increased administrative burdens on employers and federal agencies.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully increases public transparency and oversight of federal awards by standardizing and publishing more data and creating reporting deadlines, but those benefits come with nontrivial administrative and compliance costs, potential diversion of staff from program delivery, and remaining security/coverage exceptions.
Promoting Police Leadership Act
The bill aims to raise the quality, transparency, and oversight of law enforcement leadership training while preserving state/local control, but it places costs and implementation burdens on smaller agencies and limits the speed and uniformity of nationwide reform while providing only short- to medium-term oversight.
Tribal Warrant Fairness Act
The bill gives Tribal governments a clearer, formal role in U.S. Marshals fugitive task forces and clarifies legal authority in Tribal jurisdictions to improve public safety, while imposing modest federal costs and added legal/operational complexity for officers.
Carla Walker Act
The bill aims to strengthen public forensic capacity and guide adoption of forensic genetic genealogy to solve cases faster, but it raises substantial privacy, equity, and cost concerns unless Congress pairs funding with clear safeguards and equitable distribution rules.
Gerald E. Connolly Esophageal Cancer Awareness Act of 2025
The bill could improve early detection and prevention of esophageal cancer for higher‑risk people and give Congress better FEHBP spending data, but it risks higher screening costs, potential overdiagnosis and equity concerns while delivering only indirect, report‑based changes to care access.
TRUE Accountability Act
The bill increases protections against fraudulent emergency spending and improves preparedness and oversight, but does so by adding agency compliance work and potential indirect costs and privacy risks without providing new funding.
Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act
The bill centralizes and funds standardized antifraud training and oversight to reduce improper payments across federal and subnational programs, but it imposes new training and compliance burdens, administrative complexity, and modest additional federal spending that could slow grant access for some recipients.
Federal Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention Act of 2026
The bill tightens protections for taxpayer funds and gives agencies clearer tools to bar fraudulent contractors, but it also risks excluding people who avoided conviction, imposes new administrative burdens, may shrink the contractor workforce, and could politicize waiver decisions.
PEACE Act
The bill increases diplomatic focus and congressional oversight on antisemitism and related terrorism in Europe, but imposes unfunded workloads on the State Department and includes non‑binding elements that may limit concrete results.
Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2026
The bill creates financial incentives, transparency, and oversight to find and rescind wasteful federal spending—potentially saving taxpayer money—but raises risks of program disruptions from rescissions, added administrative burdens from incentives, and reduced participation by some oversight personnel.
US-Japan-ROK Trilateral Cooperation Act
The bill strengthens trilateral legislative and executive coordination to improve regional security, predictability, and transparency, but it raises trade‑offs around potential fiscal costs, risks of military entanglement, civil‑liberties impacts from counter‑disinformation measures, and politicization or influence concerns.
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill improves federal detection and recovery of improper payments through expanded data access, verification, and standardized reporting—but does so at the cost of significant new privacy and data‑sharing risks and substantial administrative and cash‑flow burdens on states, recipients, and some beneficiaries.
Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act
The bill centralizes congressional control over appointments and restructures personnel rules at the Library, GPO, and Copyright Office to speed staffing and clarify employee rules—improving operational continuity and some workplace protections—while increasing risks of politicization, reduced external oversight, implementation costs, and potential impacts on public access and civil-service norms.
Florida Safe Seas Act of 2025
The bill trades away a textual ambiguity to give clearer authority to state and federal fisheries managers, but that same change—and any unspecified inserted language—could broaden regulatory reach and impose economic uncertainty and compliance costs on states and local operators.
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill restores and clarifies ANCSA-related land, shares, and corporate status for five southeastern Alaska communities to enable local control and economic development, while trading off reduced public land management, potential shareholder disputes, and administrative, environmental, and safety risks.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects them from losing rights based solely on VA administrative fiduciary or competence determinations, but it does so at the cost of potentially reducing law-enforcement access to mental-competency information and increasing public-safety risks and administrative burdens by shifting determinations to courts.
Safe Cloud Storage Act
The bill improves law enforcement’s ability to store, secure, and retain digital child sexual abuse evidence by using vetted private vendors with strict security and retention rules, but it creates meaningful privacy, civil‑liberties, and legal‑accountability risks and adds compliance costs that may fall to governments and taxpayers.
Stop Stealing our Chips Act
The bill strengthens export-control enforcement and national security by incentivizing and protecting whistleblowers and speeding investigations, but it raises fiscal costs, administrative burdens, and confidentiality risks for businesses and taxpayers.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill channels substantial new federal support and procedural changes to speed housing supply, disaster recovery, and veteran/tenant protections while increasing transparency, but it raises trade-offs in higher federal spending, larger administrative burdens, privacy and environmental risks, and potential impacts on rental supply and local counseling capacity.
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.
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens and clarifies procedural protections and access to judicial review for taxpayers disputing collections (preserving tolling and limiting automatic offsets) at the cost of greater administrative complexity, potential delays in IRS collections, and higher litigation and compliance risks for some taxpayers.
Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act
The bill aims to speed and clarify veterans' access to appointments and temporarily preserve pension payments, but those gains come with new federal costs, operational strain and rollout risks (including privacy/interoperability concerns) that could disrupt care during implementation.
North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026
The bill streamlines and clarifies State–Federal land exchanges and strengthens tribal trust and conservation protections in North Dakota—providing title clarity and continuity for leases and grazing—while accelerating conveyances and reducing some procedural protections, which raises environmental, administrative, and fiscal risks for communities, agencies, and certain landholders.
TREY'S Law
The bill strengthens survivors' ability to speak, seek remedies, and enable public accountability by limiting enforceable NDAs for child sexual abuse, while increasing loss of confidentiality for some parties, raising litigation and federal–state conflicts, and exposing institutions to greater reputational and financial risk.
